>
> > *snip*
> > > Well, to late over here - Standard German has equalized most German
> > > languages and dialects. More than 100 years of Education did succeede.
>
> > I thought book mal (which I KNOW is spelled wrong, what little German spelling
> > I knew in undergrad school I've long since forgotten) was the standard for
> > education, but I didn't think there were laws requiring it. Are there?
>
> Maybe you're confusing the name with booksmal, the
> 'official' norwegian spelling/language ? Anyway,
Yeek. I think that's exactly what I did. I took Norsk the semester after I
took German and now, 10+ years down the road, they're all mushed together,
since I never spoke either one beyond the most rudamentry level.
> Standard German (Hochdeutsch) is defined as the
> language to be used in official (state) documents.
> The spepelling of this language is defined to be the
> standard spelling to be uese in any official corospodence
> (Not for the citicen, but to be used by the officer).
> All school education is using this language in all
> classes. TV and Radio programs are made in Standard
> German ... so society is converting - Well, the reasons
> are maybe logical and understandable, just I dislike
> them at all. As some of you may know, Germany had
> several mor or less succesfull confrontations with
> France, just, do you know what language the German
> Officers had to use for conferences and to clear
> orders ? German ? Wrong, even in the successfull
> 1870/71 war the language of the German commanders
> was french - otherwise a Leutnant from lets say
> Bavaria and one from Hanover would had a hard time
> to understand each other. Althrough all part of the
> German language family, close members, the difference
> is way deeper than lets say between American, Australien
> or English English. Maybe a bit like the Ebony thing.
> Or to use known languages, in the worst case (Bavarian
> vs. Platt) like between todays English and Dutch.
>
> Anyway, going back to your question: it's a soft
> force of standardisation rather a brute force today -
> it has been different in the past.
>
> Gruss
> H.
>
> BTW: Just curious - almost nobody is going on my remarks about C :)
>
> --
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> http://www.vintage.org/vcfe
> http://www.homecomputer.de/vcfe
>
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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