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In the last major change in Dutch (1954) a huge number of words
were
simplified;
Some users still, quite legitimately, use the "old"
spellings even now. There's little real
harm if some people stick to the old spellings and some use the
new
ones. Of course if you "pick and mix" between old & new you'll
get an
unedifying hotchpotch.
The same thing happend with the 2nd big German reform this century,
and the
wun hardly ennywun evver refers tu: dropping the Gothic script after
the last
war. In the sixtys we still red sum books in the old script at school.
By the
70's no school used them enny mor.
I had 8 uncls and aunts. Those whu rote a lot soon changed over tu the
modern
script. Of the 2 still alive wun is a farmer and still uses the old
script
now. The uther became a hi rank civil servant and had changed from
the start,
but as he is in his late 70's I dout that he will adopt the latest
reformd
spellings.
Having a bit of a hotch potch during the change over period wood onely
matters
at school and uni whair 'rong' spellings ar taken note of. In the real
world
adults trying tu adopt the changes ar bound tu make mistakes. Those
with
computers will be fine when new spellcheckers cum in.
Switching between the 2 like I du is a real pane, especially as
I am trying
tu refine my ideas, about what needs changing and how tu change it,
at the
same time. And Word 'corects' sum things automatically for me. I am
adopting
sum changes in part just tu see what it feels like trying tu du
it.
Masha
