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> Germany actually enacted an orthographical reform in 1996 That reform has since been reformed twice itself, and major newspapers have started to enforce thei
by DocTomoe 5y ago
> Germany actually enacted an orthographical reform in 1996
That reform has since been reformed twice itself, and major newspapers have started to enforce their own orthography to fight the chaos that was caused by these "improvements". Most people my age (40-something) and socioculutal strata have ignored the reform altogether and keep using the old, "correct" forms. And the kids may learn the "easier" form at first, but once they get immersed with books and the news, switch to weird variants somewhere between old-school and new-school German orthography, with a heavy bias to old-school.
- Semaphor 5y ago> switch to weird variants somewhere between old-school and new-school German orthography, with a heavy bias to old-school. [Citation Needed] It’s not that I don’t believe, so (mainly because I find most new forms uglier), but outside my own writing (which the spellchecker then complains about, and I change it) I don’t really encounter "Photographie."
- wizardofdos 5y agoYou just don't frequent the same 'socioculutal strata' ;)
- DocTomoe 5y agoI find "Photographie" all the time, most prominently in photography-related organisations and publications, so that might be carried over from old times before 1996... when "Fotografie" was already a valid variant spelling. I never read about "Delfine" or "Spagetti", though.
- LeonidasXIV 5y agoI think "Photographie" is common when you want to sound stuck-up-your-ass artsy-fartsy. In regular use the word "Foto" is way more common than "Photo", unless you're the publisher of a black and white analog photography publication dating back to 1888.