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https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/spelling-reform.html https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/spelling-reform.h... If so it is equally badly spell
by bryanrasmussen 2y ago
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/spelling-reform.html https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/spelling-reform.h...
If so it is equally badly spelled German.
- xanderlewis 2y ago*spelt.
- philshem 2y agoNope. https://english.stackexchange.com/a/5714/ https://english.stackexchange.com/a/5714/
- whatshisface 2y agoLong after the sword was smelt In foreign lands did wielder welt. The script upon the scabbard belt Thereupon became misspelt.
- 73kl4453dz 2y agoA missing n?
- xanderlewis 2y agoIt was a lighthearted joke.
- ndileas 2y agopersonally I prefer wheat.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y ago"Spelled" is a perfectly cromulent word in UK English (the best English).
- walthamstow 2y agoInteresting. I thought spelt and learnt were UK English.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoThey are UK English, but "spelled" and "learned" are in common usage too. I wouldn't consider it to be an Americanism if I read/heard those versions (I'm English, myself).
- vidarh 2y agoGerman is badly spelt German. Damn High German consonant shift. (E.g.compare ship, schip, Schip, skib, skip vs. Schiff, or day, dag, Dag, dag, vs. Tag etc. - we'd have a far neater, gradual Germanic transition around the North Sea if Low German had "won".
- kiliantics 2y agoThe book "fom winde ferfeelt" is basically a book-length version of the joke, written by a brazilian who was frustrated with the inconsistency in the rules of the German language.