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	German spelling reform of 1996 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The German spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) was an international agreement signed in 1996 by the governments of the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland, concerning the reform of German spelling.
		The reform aims to systematise the correspondence between sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes), and to strengthen the principle that declinations should follow the spelling of the root.
		On July 14, 1998, and after several hearings involving the teachers' initiatives, the court declared that the introduction of a spelling reform by the Ministers of Culture was legal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_spelling_reform_of_1996 (2888 words)

	German spelling reform.
		She therefore planned to issue a decree to the effect that both old and new spellings would count as correct in schools, the new spellings were to be neither taught nor practised, and textbooks and dictionaries using either the old or the new spellings would be permitted.
		Second, if the hearing had ruled that the reform had simply been introduced too early, the decision would cease to be valid on the 1.8.98 (this was the official start date for introducing reformed spellings in schools, but most schools had started earlier to avoid an overnight changeover).
		Reformers countered this argument by referring to the fact that it was normal practice for educational matters to be decided on an inter-state level.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j26/german.php (3363 words)

	German as a foreign language: The German spelling reform
		The German spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) was an international agreement signed in 1996 by the governments of the German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).
		The spelling reform is an attempt to simplify and facilitate the rules of spelling without changing the familiar rules of the German language substantially.
		German spelling: rules and glossary: official regulations of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, where the topic is also discussed in their magazine 'language report' ('Sprachreport').
	www.learn-german-online.net /learning-german-resouces/german-spelling-reform.htm (298 words)

	German spelling reform biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1880 the Prussians regulated German spelling on the basis of Konrad Duden 's dictionary.
		The scholarly debate over correct spelling was polarized in the late 60s, because the young men and women of that generation rejected spelling regulation as repressive and a means for social selection.
		The editors of the Duden also agreed that many of the problems in the old spelling system were due to the arcane rules that they had produced to explain it, thus lending their support to the new spelling, which was styled as "more logical".
	rechtschreibreform.biography.ms (2329 words)

	German spelling reform. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Small spelling changes of the kind proposed by the reform do not of course affect the meaning of the works in question (the pamphlet demonstrates this with three differently spelt versions of a poem by Goethe, one from 1814, one from 1972, and one in the new orthography).
		Every language faces a dilemma as to whether to naturalize the spelling of foreign words: use the foreign spelling, and the word may be indecipherable to readers ignorant of the source-language; but naturalize the spelling, and foreign learners may be perplexed and international spelling patterns are undermined.
		German has traditionally had rigid and complex rules for determining where hyphens may be inserted when a word is too long to fit at the end of a line.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j23/german.php (2898 words)

	Spelling Reform in German.
		German nouns are traditionally written with capital letters, but the difficulty of deciding which words are nouns leads to error and inconsistency.
		Nonetheless, some of the rules for spelling German were needlessly complex and even inconsistent, and the overriding aim of the present reform is to improve the user-friendliness of the writing system.
		It is recognized that not every spelling problem in German has been solved, and there are voices urging further reform, such as the Swiss BVR [3] calling for the decapitalization of nouns, and, brilliant but less serious, the writer Zé do Rock [4], on whom we hope to report in a future JSSS.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j21/german.php (2707 words)

	Spelling Reform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Spelling Reform Conference to be Held in Germany in 2005
		While spectators and judges inside the Grand Hyatt Hotel ponder the spellings of obscure words, on the sidewalk outside members of the American Literacy Council and the Simplified Spelling Society will spread the word that English spelling is a problem that should be fixed.
		Note that particular simplified spellings are often adopted into common usage; what we have never had was the general adoption of a new system to guide future changes.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/alt1.htm (1349 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Until the German spelling reform of 1901, the use depended from region to region.
		In the late 18th and early 19th century, when more and more German texts were printed in antiqua, the typesetter looked for an antiqua counterpart of the flletter ſz ligature because they wanted to preserve the common distinction between ſz and ss.
		Before the German spelling reform of 1996, the rule was that "ss" must never be used at the end of a syllable and must be replaced by "ß", even if it followed a short vowel.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/database-tool.html (1166 words)

	Goethe-Institut Dossier The German Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The main aim of the reform is to facilitate the teaching, learning and use of spelling by reorganising the system of German spelling and making various rule changes.
		On behalf of German, Austrian and Swiss cultural authorities, commissions of experts from the German-speaking countries produced a proposal for reform which was adopted by the governments of these countries in 1994.
		The German Academy for Language and Literature and other experts have warned against a split in the German language and, at the same time, called for a compromise in the conflict about the spelling reform.
	www.goethe.de /kug/prj/dds/en137878.htm (1083 words)

	SpellRef (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A special commission of German educators and linguists adopted a special spelling reform for the German language that went into effect on August 1, 1998.
		This spelling reform is an attempt to simplify German spelling by making it more uniform and predictable.
		Despite considerable opposition from some publishers, writers and others, including several court challenges, the spelling reform is currently in the transitional stage.
	www.msu.edu /user/lovik/SpellRef.html (339 words)

	Lingua Franca - 26/08/00: German Spelling Reform...
		BRUCE DONALDSON, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages at Melbourne University, is in Germany, in the thick of the debate in Munster.
		And after all, this spelling has really only had one year in which it’s been adopted universally throughout the country, and a year is absolutely nothing in the life of the history of the language, or the history of a language of spelling.
		Not only that, the countries with German minorities such as France and Hungary and Roumania and Italy, and Luxembourg were all in on the discussions that took 15 years to decide on this reform.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/ling/stories/s167690.htm (2168 words)

	Goethe-Institut Dossier The German Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The role of anglicisms, the controversial German spelling reform which is the subject of intense discussion or German as the language of science - our dossier offers topics around the German language.
		On 1st August 2005, after a seven-year transitional period, the German spelling reform was to become mandatory.
		"German as a foreign language" is a relatively new subject at universities in Germany.
	www.goethe.de /kug/prj/dds/enindex.htm (604 words)

	German Spelling Reform Proves Difficult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From that date on, Germans were assured, German spelling would prove to be easier, as everything would be spelled in the same way it is pronounced.
		Yet too much time has passed now to call off the reform; by 2005 everyone will have to use the new orthography—and by 2050 hardly anyone—it is hoped—will remember the old way of spelling things.
		Christa Martin, a German university student of English and German language and linguistics, is an intern with the Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel.
	baltimorechronicle.com /aug03_germanspelling.html (398 words)

	A Fistful of Euros: Comment on Sprach und Sommertheater - German spelling reform and linguistic ignorance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The spelling commission actually proposed a much more phonetic spelling than the progressive one ('sitroen' for 'citroen', 'sistematies' for 'systematisch') and even wanted to get rid of the 'principle of analogy' that rules Dutch spellings since the first official orthographies of the 1860s.
		On German reform and the Swiss: I was in Switzerland when the new German rules were announced, and though there was some desultory debate in the papers, as far as I can tell the Swiss simply ignored most of the arguments..AND the new rules.
		Spelling reform advocates Doug Everingham, Ivor F and Tom Hardwyck, fail to acknowledge the loss of meaning or ambiguity problem that comes with SSSS.
	fistfulofeuros.net /scgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=759 (6319 words)

	Holt, Rinehart and Winston World Languages Passport!
		In order to give the millions of people who write in German enough time to get used to the new spelling rules, provisions were made so that both old and new spellings would be considered correct until 2005, and possibly beyond 2005.
		The spelling reform, which is still hotly debated, touches less than one percent of all German words.
		The goal of the reforms related to capitalization is to ensure that all nouns or words that function as nouns are capitalized.
	www.hrw.com /world/passport/archive/spring98/german.htm (514 words)

	Language Log: More on Spelling Reform
		Via de Argilla's argument against spelling reform begins with the claim that reformers have a false view of languages, namely that writing is simply a means of recording speech.
		Rather than tormenting beginning readers and writers with historicizing spellings, it would be better to let them learn to read and write easily and at a later point in their education teach them some real historical linguistics.
		It's true that spelling reform requires care and that creating a good writing system is not as simple as choosing one letter per sound, but the English spelling system is such a baroque mess that it creates real problems for those learning to read and write.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001024.html (1127 words)

	MultilingualWebmaster >> where the web is headed
		The changes are quite dramatic: The 212 rules that used to govern German spelling have been consolidated to 112.
		Duden-online is THE authority on German spelling rules (in German).
		Institut für Deutsche Sprache (German Language Institute) maintains a committee to implement and clarify the new rules (in German).
	www.multilingualwebmaster.com /library/DEreform.html (242 words)

	German States Back Spelling Reform \| Germany \| Deutsche Welle \| 21.08.2004
		While several German publishers recently rejected the country's six-year-old spelling reform, a clear majority of states intend to stick to the change in schools, according to a news report.
		Rejecting a six-year-old spelling reform, several publishing companies have announced they would switch back to the old system.
		German spelling is once again at the center of political debate, despite the fact that an across-the-board reform went into effect six years ago.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,1303522,00.html (404 words)

	English Spelling Reform, New Alphabets for English, Systematic Phonemic (Phonetic) Spelling,
		Spelling Reformers typically want to write with a dictionary pronunciation guide rather than traditional English spelling.
		More on the case for spelling reform and clipping superfluous letters.
		I favor the idea of some spelling reform, but I only think that it's possible and practical if we do just a little, and do so gradually.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /vangogh/555/Spell/spel-links.html (1881 words)

	It's Ablaut Time: Spelling reform
		Apropos all the recent chatter about (German) spelling reform, I have to admit that I have mixed feelings about orthographic reform for English.
		Spelling, pronunciation, and a shift in word usage.
		Grandpa was a German language proofreader - he had perfect spelling in German - which brings the topic full circle back to German speling reform.
	ablauttime.blogspot.com /2004/08/spelling-reform.html (466 words)

	swisspolitics.org \| Swiss defend German spelling reform
		The controversy over German spelling reform broke out in early August after Axel Springer, Spiegel-Verlag publishers and the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” newspaper announced that they intended to abandon the new language rules.
		The Conference of Culture Ministers from the German Länder (states), which is in charge of the new German orthography, is also determined to carry the spelling reform through.
		Teachers of German at grammar schools have been asked to sign a petition stating their opposition, but it is not yet known how many have signed it.
	www.swisspolitics.org /en/news/index.php?page=story_inhalt&story_id=5163585 (684 words)

	Language Log: "State-ordered dyslexia"
		According to Matt Surman on the AP wire and James McKenzie at Reuters, some major German publishers (Der Spiegel, Axel Springer Verlag, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung) have decided to join the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in abandoning the spelling reform started in...
		According to Matt Surman on the AP wire and James McKenzie at Reuters, some major German publishers (Der Spiegel, Axel Springer Verlag, the
		The official web site on the spelling reform is at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001327.html (283 words)

	CNN.com - German paper readers want spelling reform ditched - September 1, 2000
		The reform, which removes many spelling irregularities and cuts the number of rules governing the use of the comma, was introduced in schools in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 1998 but only adopted by most newspapers a year ago.
		The influential Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily unleashed a fierce debate about the reform last month when it said it was reverting to the old rules after just a year.
		The changes, agreed to at a conference in Vienna in 1996, have sparked debate among scholars and writers and prompted some parents to take legal action to protest their children being taught the new rules in school.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/09/01/germany.spelling.reut (451 words)

	Reforms And - Aderholt For Congress
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		German spelling reform - The 'Rechtschreib' revolt of Germany's leading newspaper on Aug. 1, 2000 is just part of the story....(Continue Reading)
	www.aderholtforcongress.com /reforms-and.html (134 words)

	LearnPlus Recommended German Dictionaries
		All the words are written using the new, correct spelling that was introduced following die deutsche Rechtschreibreform (the German spelling reform).
		The aim is to enlarge your German vocabulary and reinforce your knowledge of the language.
		The old spelling will be accepted until the end of the school year 2004/2005, but since 1998 only the new spelling is taught in school.
	www.learnplus.com /guides/material-german-dict.html (845 words)

	BGreek: German spelling reform
		German publications constantly in our efforts to study Biblical Greek.
		spellings of many words in favor (not favour!) of their Latin origins.
		Anglophile drift in spelling (I suppose derived from Victoria's being the
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/test-archives/html4/1996-07/12323.html (533 words)

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		That ruling prompted the state’s SPD government to announce Monday (October 20) that it would suspend implementation of the reform and order schools to return to the spelling rules long conventional when students return from their brief fall break in early November.
		At issue is whether Germany’s sixteen state ministers of education exceeded their authority when they committed the country to the spelling reform plan an international group of linguists and educators first proposed in late 1994.
		Spelling rules will be made more comprehensible and freed from a profusion of exceptions and special cases, and the gap between the written and spoken word will be narrowed.
	faculty.washington.edu /~krumme/german/spell.html (994 words)

	Pedantry: Sprach und Sommertheater - German spelling reform and linguistic ignorance
		Pedantry: Sprach und Sommertheater - German spelling reform and linguistic ignorance
		Sprach und Sommertheater - German spelling reform and linguistic ignorance
		Germany, as I have learned via Taccuino di traduzione, is implementing a spelling reform and it seems this reform is facing resistance.
	pedantry.fistfulofeuros.net /archives/000760.html (52 words)

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