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Topic Options #133257 - 09/20/04 05:20 PM Capitalization Rules/German Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... With only a couple of weeks of German instruction, I don't remember much. However, I liked the capitalization rule: nouns are capitalized. I think the English-speaking peoples should adopt this rule. Does the rule also cover compound nouns--both words are capitalized? Top #133258 - 09/20/04 05:38 PM Re: Capitalization Rules/German Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654 Just the first Letter. Top #133259 - 09/20/04 06:11 PM Re: Capitalization Rules/German Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Thanks, Fal'. I just learned that Germans never pronounce a final 's' as a 'z'...that when pronounced, the final 's' is always pronounced as an 's'. Neat. So, were there a Hans, Germans would never pronounce the name Hanz, but always Hans. This kind of very trivial information is always a delight to learn. Wish I felt that way about the Fourier series. Top #133260 - 09/20/04 06:14 PM Re: Capitalization Rules/German jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California I think the English-speaking peoples should adopt this rule. They did, going through a period of capitalizing most nouns during the 18th century, but it's died off. The Germans also experimented with not capitalizing nouns during the second half of the 19th century, but it didn't catch on either. (I have some books using this strange orthography and they look very weird.) The Ancient Egyptians used to put a cartouche around proper names and other ancient Near Eastern languages (e.g., Akkadian or Sumerian) used particles called determinatives to indicate that a word in cuneiform was a person's or a place's name. These still get transliterated, but were probably not pronounced. Top #133261 - 09/21/04 03:30 PM Re: Capitalization Rules/German Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Too bad it died off--would have made my job a lot easier. Top #133262 - 09/21/04 08:29 PM Re: Capitalization Rules/German Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654 Germans never pronounce a final 's' as a 'z In general final consonant sounds are unvoiced in German. Top #133263 - 09/27/04 12:26 AM Re: Capitalization Rules/German tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass >Too bad it died off--would have made my job a lot easier. you obviously haven't (tried to) read Pynchon's Mason & Dixon... Top #133264 - 09/27/04 10:12 AM Re: Capitalization Rules/German jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California Well, if you know when to init-cap a noun, you know it's a noun. Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8424 Members 16 Forums 13686 Topics 209774 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members teepee, smoothcriminal86, janbra, junebug, Stephen A 8423 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 41 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 88 jenny jenny 62 wofahulicodoc 54 endymion6 47 Rhubarb Commando 35 BranShea 34 Buffalo Shrdlu 16 zmjezhd 13 Faldage 12 Jackie 12 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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