Re: Classic German orthography

[Christian Meyer <chrisime uni de>]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:29:32 +0100
Matthias Warkus <mawarkus@gnome.org> wrote:

> +++ Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:33:07PM +0100 +++
> Benjamin Greiner e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the
> break.
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:47:14PM +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> > > Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@commsecure.com.au> writes:
> > > 
> > > > The "modifier" portion of the locale designation is pretty
> > > > free-form and non-standardised. So it's not completely insane to
> > > > make a de_DE@classic or de_DE@alt-und-unveraenderlich or
> > > > whatever.
> > > 
> > > I vote to go for de_DE@20th_century -- German classic literature
> > > (Lessing, Wieland, Goethe, Schiller, Adelung, ... 18th c.) is
> > > based on an even more "classic" orthography :)
> > 
> > Well, that's fine with me, as our "new" orthography actually
> > resembles that of Lessing and Goethe's times a lot. :)
> 
> Not really.
> 
> Besides, I thought we had already discussed this?

Benjamin, we won't change anything now. even if you're going to write
hundreds of emails.

Greetings,
Christian