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May 26 |
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Is it still good form to use a capital D for Du or Dir in a letter? Accepted answer for inline extract, care to edit after reactions from various readers, cumulative corrections and extensions. |
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May 25 |
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Are there other examples of postposed prepositions like in “Meiner Meinung nach, …”? added a tag |
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May 25 |
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Are there other examples of postposed prepositions like in “Meiner Meinung nach, …”? Wenn es ein Wort dafür gibt, ... Danke! Ich hätte es wissen sollen. |
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May 25 |
asked | Are there other examples of postposed prepositions like in “Meiner Meinung nach, …”? |
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May 25 |
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Gibt es im Deutschen Reste von anderen grammatischen Fällen als den vier üblichen? Ist auf dem Lande auch ein Lokativ? |
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May 25 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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May 25 |
awarded | Vox Populi |
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May 25 |
awarded | Suffrage |
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May 25 |
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May 25 |
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Was ist das Partizip Perfekt eines englischen Lehnwortes wie “booten”? Was sind die Formen, die von Microsoft oder Apple benutzen werden? |
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May 25 |
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May 25 |
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Is it still good form to use a capital D for Du or Dir in a letter? added a side usage question |
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May 25 |
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Polite alternatives to “Grüß Gott”? @Octavian : I did not know this one. Looks a lot like an archaic way of parting in french: "J'ai bien l'honneur (... de vous saluer, de vous servir)", which is not used anymore since the XIXth century. |
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May 25 |
awarded | Student |
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May 25 |
asked | Is it still good form to use a capital D for Du or Dir in a letter? |
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May 25 |
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Do Latin loanwords conserve their gender? Mauer und murus seems to be cognates but I am not sure you could invoke direct import. |
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May 25 |
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What are the differences in punctuation between German and English? @Konrad : I agree and in this matter, there is certainly a lot to be left to the typographer for the whole design of the publication, and previous practice has been varied. Full spaces are often used in dialogues of theater plays for instance. Anyway we are not here to start a discussion on french typography, let's wait for French.SE :-) Have you committed yet? |
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May 25 |
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What are the differences in punctuation between German and English? @Konrad: in french the space between the marks and the first and last words are not whole spaces, but usually not breakable "espaces fines", and in most publishing houses only if there is a quotation between marks, not a simple emphasis of a phrase. If small not-breakable spaces are not available when you write (i.e. in a comment system), you should not use any spaces. |
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May 25 |
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What are the differences in punctuation between German and English? See also Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss. |
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May 25 |
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German words with interesting etymology It is certainly too broad. |
