Re: CONLANG Digest - 15 May 2000 to 16 May 2000 (#2000-134)
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 17, 2000, 6:58 |
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At 5/17/00 02:15 AM -0400, you wrote:
>> Has _no_ modern language ever done it?
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>Yes, when there's been an official organization to declare correct
>usages, like the French Academy, which when founded, changed something
>like 25% of French spellings, especially replacing vowel-s with
>vowel-circumflex.
Is there a "German Academy"? There was a German spelling reform inacted a few
years ago, but I have never heard of any official organization in charge of
German usage. Perhaps I've just missed references to it.
Marcus