Re: Speedwords hare (was: Some new Brithenig words? Narbonosc

> From: BP Jonsson
>
> At 06:08 2001-05-27 -0400, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >Hm, you capitalize Danish nouns? That's been obsolete since shortly after
> >WWII. At the time, the reform was seen as having the dual
> benefits of making
> >written Danish more similar to the other Nordic langs and less similar to
> >German. I hope the later isn't seen as a benefit nowadays ...
>
> Of course it would be a benefit if German abandoned capitalization of
> nouns.  It would make it more like other languages written in
> Roman script!
Benefit to whom?  In what way would changing their language to "make it more
like other languages" benefit Germans?  What might motivate them to make
such a change on this basis?

Stay curious,
David

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