Talk:German orthography

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This article is not about German orthography at all. (See Orthography.) It discusses phonology as related to or discernable from the spelling of a word. It might therefore make a good addition to the German phonology page.

I was about to write that. You beat me to it.

This is about orthography and letter-to-sound correspondence, which has absolutely nothing to do with phonology. I suggest that you read up on what the term actually means. I've removed the sign here and at German phonology.

Peter ^Isotalo 20:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

I actually agree with the anon comments. So far this article only discusses phonological notation of Standard German. An actual article on German orthography would include material along the lines of de:Deutsche Rechtschreibung, Standard_German#Orthography. I suggest we either expand it, or merge it into phonology for now, making this title a redirect to Standard German. dab (ᛏ) 10:34, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I think this page should be kept. I typed in "German Orthography" hoping for something like this and got it. 66.81.36.255 20:27, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think this page needs to be merged with German phonology at all; rather, this page needs to be expanded so that it's about more than just the spelling-to-pronunciation correspondences. But this page is the correct place for those spelling-to-pronunciation correspondences, which would have no business at German phonology at all. Perhaps someone could translate de:Deutsche Rechtschreibung and add it here (while keeping the info that's already here). Angr/talk 11:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I've tried to make such an expansion of the article, and have therefore removed that merging request. ― j. 'mach' wust | ✑ 10:47, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] merger

I don't think that this page should merge with German phonology but I did notice that the German alphabet page seems to cover the same area as this page. One should merge into the other. This one is much more developed AEuSoes1 08:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization

I came to this article in the hope of finding out about rules of capitalization of German. Nothing here. As pointed out above, this article has some good stuff, but it's hardly orthography. -- Hoary 10:51, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Capitalization in German is very easy: If you could write der/die/das (i.e. the) in connection with a word it is capitalized. Example: Die Länge (the length) as opposed to lang (long).
In order to make the rule clearer, I used German capitalization in an English text:
A popular Saying in Germany is: "Breakfast like an Emperor, lunch like a King, and dine like a Beggar." Breakfast is usually a Selection of Cereals and Jam or Honey with Bread. Some Germans eat cold Meats or Cheese with Bread for Breakfast. More than 300 Types of Breads, sold in Bakery Shops, are known throughout the Country. Enka (talk) 14:34, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Your rule doesn't account for capitalization in etwas Schönes, alles Gute, gestern Abend. —Angr ^{If you've written a quality article...} 14:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)