Am Freitag, 31. M?rz 2006 00:00 schrieb avox: > Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 30. M?rz 2006 23:39 schrieb avox: > >> In your dreams, mate! German only has ??? and ?. > > > > True and not true. We also use (almost) the whole set of French, Italian, > > and > > Spanish accents and special characters for words that originate in those > > languages and are integrated into German, e. g. Fa?on, voil?. > > When Germans use French accents on French words that doesn't make it a > German accent, does it?
That's not what I wrote. They are used in German (and in Dutch) too, that's all. > Also in German foreign words get assimilated, as in > "Fassade", Some are assimilated, some are not, some are both. You will not write "voila". > compare to French/English "fa?ade". The new orthography rules have some > really unorthodox which is extremely polite ;) > proposals for even heavier assimilation, and I'm not > talking about > "Delfin"... ... which is harmless, compared to "Schikoree" (Chicor?e), "Grisli" (Grizzly) or "Krepp" (Cr?pe). "Krepp Suzette" ... absolutely ridiculous! > > /Andreas Cheers Christoph
