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

> From: BP Jonsson
>
> At 06:39 2001-05-27 -0400, The Gray Wizard wrote:
>
> >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?
>
> It is certainly not immediately clear to schoolchildren which words are
> nouns.  I'm sure a lot of class time could be used for more
> valuable learning.
I don't know.  Given the other complexities of German nouns (gender, case,
number), I can't imagine that capitalization rules score very high in terms
of learning difficulties.  I can't remember any significant class time being
spent on it when I studied German as an undergrad.

Stay curious,
David

David E. Bell
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