> German is a language where in the written form you look at the letters and you immediately see how it is spoken.
replyLol, written vs spoken German is just as ambigious as any other language with too few letters in the alphabet. Just look at "ich" vs "ach" (and then of course there's dozens of local dialects that don't even have spelling rules and would need even bigger alphabets if "done right").
No, not all languages are the same about the correlation of spelling and pronunciation. Of European languages, English is the least predictable, Spanish is the most predictable, and German is (about equidistant) between them. Spanish had a spelling reform the shortest time ago, English never had one.
replySource: Read it somewhere a long time ago, sorry.
Medieval German didn't have fixed rules for writing. The same word was written in different ways on the same page, so many words inherited from the Middle Ages cannot be taken literally under modern writing rules.
replyGrammar "Realist" from Austria flagged to hell vs "All Spellings are Sacred" hippy.
replyPersonally, I don't think the original misspelling merited any of this.
No indication that he is perusing medieval documents. Most likely Google/Gemini.
The not/note typo strikes again, it reverses the meaning of a phrase.
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