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Yeah, to add to it a lot of Germans will use American English but some British English and my spellchecker can't handle the mixture. Off topic but despide how d
by jamil7 6y ago
Yeah, to add to it a lot of Germans will use American English but some British English and my spellchecker can't handle the mixture. Off topic but despide how difficult German has been to learn I've found spelling in German to be far more predictable and straightforward than my native language English.
- coopierez 6y agoThis is at least partly because all of the German speaking countries got together in 1996 to reform the spelling of the language. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1...
- jamil7 6y agoRight, I vaguely remember hearing about this. Another benefit is you usually have a fairly good idea how a word is pronounced, which is not the case for English or French in my exprience. In some ways I guess American English attempts to standardise and fix some rough edges of English.
- Symbiote 6y agoIt tried, but I'm not sure how much it succeeded. American English changes a few cases, but there are often exceptions (color, favor, but four, glamour; -ize, but still advertise, compromise etc). There are too many differences for me to summarize (American and Oxford English spelling there), but I think the problems with English spelling are much deeper than American English can fix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_s...