New Rules
The rules of the new spelling concern the following areas:
- correspondence between sounds and written letters (this includes rules for spelling loan words)
- capitalisation
- joined and separate words
- hyphenated spellings
- punctuation
- hyphenation at the end of a line
Place names and family names were excluded from the reform.
Read more about this topic: German Orthography Reform Of 1996
Famous quotes containing the word rules:
“The duce of any other rule have I to govern myself by in this affair—and if I had one ... I would twist it and tear it to pieces, and throw it into the fire when I had done—Am I warm? I am, and the cause demands it—a pretty story! is a man to follow rules—or rules to follow him?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Alas! when Virtue sits high aloft on a frigate’s poop, when Virtue is crowned in the cabin of a Commodore, when Virtue rules by compulsion, and domineers over Vice as a slave, then Virtue, though her mandates be outwardly observed, bears little interior sway.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)