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This 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.wikipedi
by coopierez 6y ago
This 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...