Now even new and really colorful: the new spelling
Junge Welt, 1 8. 2006
What Annette Schavan read on holiday? The last Harry Potter? Volume two of the memoirs of Helmut Kohl? A thriller by Dan Brown? Far from it. "I have decided to buy the new Duden on vacation and me just to see how" the rules look like now, she told the Berliner Zeitung . " The" rules - these are the paragraphs of the second reform of the spelling reform. Could be that the culturally-minded Minister browsing a yellow miracle experienced.
Because the dictionary - it is the fourth reformed - not only contains the provisions in question, hidden in small print, but also highlighted in yellow 3000 recommendations of the editors. To facilitate the choice between an equal number of variants, but presents the latest new spelling - it is the third - more than ever as an orthography of both / and.
The Council for German Spelling, was not immune from its establishment Schavan, has not been absent little irritating, but at least he has acknowledged the existence of a few hundred words again, which was chopped by the reform were. The Duden is now trying to subvert this late rehabilitation and recommended in most cases, continue the reform brought in separate letters, "free living" "instead of" free living "unaware" instead of "not knowing. A "rolling" cigarettes: Who speaks like that?
is flashy yet that the recommendations of the Duden are completely arbitrary. In most cases, it was decided in Mannheim for the separateness reformed spelling, but not always. The result is very chaotic, "frightening" together, but "terrifying separate" gifted "together", but paid "high" separately. The recommendations in other areas are equally puzzling: is "draining you write with ä," lymph drainage "but with ai.
The spelling is random, a sort of orthographic roulette. Annette Schavan no longer plays with, since she became Minister. But for their former colleagues in the Standing Conference, and of course Hans Zehetmair, the chairman of the Spelling Board, the operation is a major embarrassment. The Duden editors had supported in almost all Council decisions. Nevertheless, they torpedoed now the timid attempts at repair, which wanted to sell Zehetmair as a great political achievement.
Too bad, too, that for Zehetmair the Wahrig that competing with the Duden dictionary of the Bertelsmann Group, has written a foreword solemn and meaningless. He is now the Mannheim handedness not criticize without having to stand to be compromised.
should really be designated as the 1st of August today, the general spelling peace. But Zehetmair had carte blanche not only by the CMC, but also by Springer-Verlag, who promised to call off its campaign against the "bad spelling reform," a small voice. could count on you as well - represented themselves with a staff member in the Council - on the support of the likes that presents semi-official agency dpa.
But the new Duden looks like a 1216seitiges Denial. "The safe end to the reform is" yellow, touted by the publisher - must indeed be fun. But whoever turned over the Tome, whether minister or secretary, is hardly the impression that this colorful chaos performing in red print and yellow marked words in addition to blue colored remarks such thing as a clear and consistent, final and binding orthography, such as the publisher is looking to make the buyers want.
In fact this is so that neither teachers nor parents and certainly not the students, the reformed spelling, in which version However, almost a sure thing. The may seem to some as a cheerful anarchy, but it also has something embarrassing in itself. Wolfgang Schneider, professor of psychology at the University of Würzburg, had in a long-term comparison Leave a dictation from the 1960s again. His conclusion: "If one were to take the spelling level of students of that time the scale would be three-quarters of today's children with dyslexia"
So there will be two spellings, the one traditional, which yields consistent and the German language entirely appropriate. , and second, the reformed, state-supported, forever in need of repair, you can really only be described as deformed. And it will be less and less people who have at least one of the two sits a little.
So when is the spell of peace? The debate will end only when the policy ceases to make the language subject. This can take.
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