h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is a very nice example for the fact that every spoken language underlies a continouus change. In German it is similar and I think that most of the words from other languages that are "germanized" nowadays belong to the weak verbs or nouns. That's why it is so difficult to keep up with a foreign language if you haven't got the possibility of speaking it regularly. In Germany the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs were so afraid that anybody could get bored of all the American words we have in our language now, that they created a completely new spelling system four years ago in order to make the German words more interesting for a big part of the population. So now I feel like an illiterate because all the spelling I knew no longer exists- or at least there is the possibility that it doesn't.

It seems to me that someone recently posted something on a thread around here about that spelling change. The post involved alot of smileys like this one:



thanks for your comments.

I haven't read that posting yet but I can imagine the sort of in it. I don't really mind having strong and weak verbs in a language ( although I did as a scholar ), you can learn them and their number is limited. I'm positive that pupils all over the world will despair of irregular verbs for quite some time to come.To be honest, it really makes me shiver to imagine that perhaps one day you will have "goed" to the lake etc...

what can I say but "I agree"?