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From: kthier@festival.ed.ac.uk (K Thier)
Subject: Re: German spelling reform
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 17:44:38 GMT
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: : >Grosschreibung, the practice of capitalizing all nouns.  Is that going to
: : >stay?


: : Why not do away with capitalization altogether? Look at the time wasted
: : teaching capitalization rules! Hebrew and Arabic do just fine without
: : capitals. We need it to distinguish Conservative and conservative? Big deal!

: This would be bad. Think of sentences like:
: "Frauen sind gut zu Voegeln."
: What would it mean without capitalization ???

what would it mean if you said it ? You don't speak in capitals either.
there is always an ambiguous example for any point one wants to make.
I like my capitals all right, but they are not really necessary!

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