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25 September 2010 at 10:46am | IP Logged 
Mareike wrote:
Oh, ich lern' hier noch meine Muttersprache.

Als Kind wurde mir beigebracht, wenn ich ein einen Buchstaben beim schreiben weglassen will, weil ich es beim reden auch tun würde, müsste ich für diesen ein Apostroph schreiben.
Ich habe immer gedacht gerne und gern' gehören mit dazu.



Has' ja Recht! Heut' hab' ich auch 'was neues g'lernt! :-D

Apropos Bastian Sick: I guess he is assuming that the written language eventually follows where the spoken language leads.
However I'm not sure whether things are really quite so simple as that? It may have been true throughout much of German history. But ever since the advent of printing and mass-publishing, conventions for written language have probably been much more resistant to change, I think.



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