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Re: German Spelling Reform (fwd)

From:dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Monday, August 9, 1999, 16:42
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, FFlores wrote:

> Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> wrote: > > > > It looks as bad as the new Dutch spelling, which I'm stubbornly > > refusing to use in any writing where I'm master of my own spelling. > [snip] > > It's not as if the -n- is pronounced, either. > > It isn't? Then why's it there? A spelling reform is supposed to > update the orthography, not to take it back in time!
Well, it kind of is pronounced. I've noticed definite nasalization of the final vowel of Dutch infinitives and plurals in -en. It may not be an alveolar nasal as the orthography might suggest, but there is something there! Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu "All grammars leak." http://www.u.arizona.edu/~elzinga/ -Edward Sapir