Erik Reuter wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:33:24PM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > > Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > > > > > GCU: The eternal electronic huntingrounds loom before the fabric of my > > > e-mails... > > > > I should have used a spell checker before I sent that one. Ouch....... :o) > > That should have been 'hunting grounds' of course..... > > Sometimes I think it would be fun if English could combine words the way > German does!
The Dutch do that too. I believe the Dutch and the Germans are the worst as to that respect. But the Germans also have really complicated rules for how to write things when you combine words. I remember 'Schifffart' as one of the more absurd results from the ...ehum... 'simplified' spelling rules they introduced a couple of years back. Combining words into larger words has some major drawbacks. It makes learning to read (never even mind correct spelling) very difficult and most spellcheckers are often at a loss, because they don't recognise combined words. Childrens books use a lot of '-' to make seperations of combination words that are really hard to read for beginners. Then again you can create the most wonderfull words. Sonja GCU Hottentottententententoonstellingsruimte or Hottentotten-tenten-tentoonstelling-s-ruimte _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
