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The government isn't involved in orthography. There is an official orthography that public officials must use, but it follows the rules of the relevant non-gove

• Tomte 2y ago
  No, the government set the rules in 1996 and modified them in 2006. that was new, before that, orthography was set by convention and common usage. Ostensibly, the reform only applied to officials in government agencies, but that also included both teachers and students in schools, and today using the old orthography in university exams is marked as errors (although many lecturers don‘t care and won‘t mark it up). Just went through it a few months ago. Today, new orthography is not optional, at workplaces you will be corrected (and sometimes chastised) for using old orthography. Just recently a colleague went through a document I wrote and changed every "daß" to "dass". Nothing else was changed. The ship has sailed, though, since many cohorts of students have gone through it now. I would just like people to be tolerant of what we older people learned in school. I don‘t want to re-learn everything. Just leave me in peace.