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abstract illusion
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 |  Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta!  Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:46 am | |
| spelling reforms.
they changed lots of "ß" into "ss", "ph" into "f" and stuff like that. but only on certain words. so noone really knows how to write shit correctly. |
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Toadvine
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:48 am | |
| ....weird. Why'd they decide to do that? Seems kinda... I dunno, I mean the language has been around for quite some time, and I understand changes but like... is there an office of the German language? |
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abstract illusion
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:55 am | |
| well.. politicians.. the conference of german cultural ministers.
the goal was to simplify the language. that was in 1996. but everyone got confused and people and publishing companies didn't accept it and so they changed some things back here and some other things there..
and now everything is messed up, hahah..
personally, i just always write "ss" instead of "ß" and keep on using "ph" like before. because "delfin" looks odd.
it's like you'd write it "dolfin". |
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Tim
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:21 am | |
| Yeah, here in the Netherlands he have like yearly reforms when it comes to grammar. Everybody is confuuuuused. |
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Toadvine
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:00 pm | |
| Weird... I don't think they've ever reformed English here in the states... not that I know of at least. |
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Tim
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:51 pm | |
| I think you're right. But we also change a lot of words in where pronunciation changes over time. Like if there is a words with an E at the end, but people stopped using the E years ago, they choose not to use it anymore. In the English language they stopped changing those things years ago.
I have a Dutch dictionary here from 1999 and it's the 34th version since 1951. |
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Toadvine
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:23 am | |
| Holy Shite... that's kinda intense. |
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abstract illusion
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:16 am | |
| hahah.. pretty much the same here.
in our dictionaries contain "old spelling" and "new spelling", hahah. |
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Ross
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:14 am | |
| | anarchyintheUS wrote: | | Weird... I don't think they've ever reformed English here in the states... not that I know of at least. |
The whole language is a metric reform of British English.
But then again maybe I'm just jealous that your language makes more actual sense than mine, even if it's less characterful <_<_________________ The sun's always rising in the sky somewhere...| cooljayhu wrote: | | Tim wrote: | | I see a giant bears head above a doorway. What? |
Canada. |
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abstract illusion
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:28 am | |
| yeah.. and texan slang sounds more badass! |
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Daggar Slade
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:29 am | |
| | abstract illusion wrote: | | yeah.. and texan slang sounds more badass! |
Much obliged, abstract. It's the damned truth._________________ ((FDK)) -unbeknownst to most, the world is completely controlled by a single pipe smoking rabbit.- | Johnny99 wrote: | | i draw the line at p hole rape. |
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Toadvine
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:13 am | |
| | abstract illusion wrote: | | yeah.. and texan slang sounds more badass! |
Hell yeah, if you're going to pick an accent to like in the US, Texan is probably top five if not the number one. |
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JoshRaymond
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:48 am | |
| its number 1
and when i go down for the fest im def going to stop by and grab a taco and a high five from warren |
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Toadvine
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:48 am | |
| Imma prolly go get some tacos from a place down the street soonish. |
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JoshRaymond
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| | Subject: Re: Boca Fiesta! Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:51 am | |
| actually tacos sound wonderful right now |
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