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Yeah, there has been a changeset in spelling rules https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_der_deutschen_Rechtschreibung_von_1996 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re
by bashkiddie 1y ago
Yeah, there has been a changeset in spelling rules
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_der_deutschen_Rechtschreibung_von_1996 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_der_deutschen_Rechtschr...
... several times: 1996,2004,2006,2011,2017.
The current correct spelling is either Schiff-Fahrt or Schifffahrt.
- lucb1e 1y agoImpartial foreigner here who has no stake in the old or new spelling. If you're combining ship and port, you can't just write shiport. Of course it's shiff-fahrt / shifffahrt? By what logic does anyone argue anything else?
- praptak 1y agoFirst of all, it was probably a descriptivist move. What I think happened is that people wrote 'ff' because 'fff' looked like a typo or was less convenient to write, so the linguistics codified that. Also, there are portmanteau words where the middle letters overlap, e.g. bro+romance=bromance.
- lucb1e 1y agoBromance does not sound like broromance in speech
- kazinator 1y agoI found a word like this in English. https://www.etymonline.com/word/chaffinch https://www.etymonline.com/word/chaffinch There may be others. When we turn to the letter 'l', we have the word skill-less which is not always written with a hyphen, in which case the three l's remain intact.
- bashkiddie 1y agoI can only guess: Once upon a time we used to write by hand. It was considered time consuming. Once upon a time we used to set books in lead letters. There were ligatures, where two consecutive letters hat a special spacing - like "fi" or "sz". If we allowed three consecutive letters, we would need to invent new ligatures. It is probably easier/cheaper to just forbid the spelling.