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Re: [OT] English Grammar Pitfalls

Brian Elmegaard

2005-12-15, 4:03 am

Dan Sommers <me@privacy.net> writes:

> IOW, in Danish (and German, Norwegian and others), you use an en-dash,
> but it's invisible. ;-)
>
> That said, I think I like that solution, long words or otherwise.

The problem is that danes like the English language (or read it too
often), so they think words should be split. A lot of strange meanings
occur if you read what they write, not what they think they write.
http://fiduso.dk/ represents Danes who have had enough.

Another problem is that sometimes some words have to be split for no
reasonable reason. This is regulated by Dansk Sprognævn
http://www.dsn.dk/

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