Re: Advanced English to become official!

Quoting Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>:

> Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
> >Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:56:57 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Problem is, Pascal's German, so it's bound to be imperfect.
> >>
> >> Oh my, what an ugly arrogant attitude >:(
> >> I can really hear the contempt in your voice... Why don't you say right
> >> away: "Germans are lower than dirt."
> >
> >I don't think it would have to do with your ethnicity, merely with that
> >you are working with a language non-native to you.  If an American-English
> >speaker attempted a spelling reform of German, similar remarks could be
> >expected.
>
> Another problem is that it seems to be a pronunciation reform as well, with
> the changes conveniently based around speaking English with a German accent.
> Either that or this eliminates distinctions in spelling that remain in
> pronunciation -- but again the distinctions that "don't need" to be kept in
> spelling are again German-skewed (s/z, T/t, a/@ ...).
It's not entirely clear to me how collapsing a/@ is German-skewed ... ?

                                                  Andreas