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>>"reform" stems from the present schools' aversion to "rote learning", which, in my opinion, is part of any learning process. <<
I agree with you, W. Rote isn't toto, but, it's part of pie -- I'd only bracket "any." As a child of the days of this aversion's cresting, I can tell you it is no wave to ride.
Is the reform pan-germanic, or only pan-german?
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Carpal Tunnel
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This reminds me of a text by Mark Twain on English spelling reform, which resurfaced on the web as an EU joke some years ago.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Carpal Tunnel
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I think I saw a version making the email rounds recently. The bottom line sounds German, as I recall! Don't know whether I can locate it again; I tend to throw this source's mails away after reading. Sometimes even before...
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old hand
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Hi AnnaStrophic, Thank you for this Swiss site - rare enough around here . A few minutes ago a young man came into my office to clean the windows. His German (he must have come from Eastern Europe) sounded just about like the most simplified example given. So maybe it's not as utopian as it may seem.
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