Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 9, 2003, 11:56 |
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At 14:18 8.11.2003, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> >Silly little spelling reformers. When K and when C?
>
>Well, until our recent spelling reform, there used to be two different
>spellings for many Latin-derived words: the "old spelling", which used _c_
>in for example "product", and the "new spelling", which used _k_ and
>wrote "produkt", "produktie", etc. Both spellings were accepted, but we
>were taught that the New Spelling was preferable.
You know, I read somewhere a definition of Flemish as
the language where _kultuur_ is spelled with a _k_ in
order not to look too French, and conversely Dutch as
the language where _cultuur_ is spelled with a _c_ in
order not to look too German. The same source suggested
the common spelling _qultuur_ which would be neither too
German nor too French! :)
/BP 8^)
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