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:
“Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)