Re: German Spelling Reform (fwd)

rnierse@anwb.nl writes:
>That's my experience too. People think they say what they write,
>especially
>in Holland. The final -n in verbs (like in "werken", "lopen") and in
>plural
>forms of nouns (like in 'dingen") is never pronounced in Dutch. Stil
>lnearly everybody thinks it is. Once I worked at Air Holland. When
>boarding, the stewardesses pronounced Dutch too well, pronouncing the
>/n/'s. I told them they didn't have too, because it is not pronounced.
>They
>refused to believe and we had a big argument!
And here i was, all this time thinking the n's were pronounced. Silly me
:) *Blush*. Well at least i see the other side of the fence (meaning, i
see why people have a hard time spelling in English, the spoken and
written are two different things, as in Dutch).


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