08-22-2008, 02:52 PM
Quote:its become rare, but not abandonedSo the Spelling Reform was successful... OK, I'll keep that in mind.
Quote:not all nouns are written in dutch with a capital, like in german?No, Dutch nouns are usually left uncapitalized. Exceptions are names of supernatural things (e.g., Supreme Being), institutions of the state (Senate), historical periods (Antiquity - this one was also wrong in that dictionary), nationalities (Russians) etc. It creates interesting cases: a Hamburger is someone from Hamburg, and a hamburger is something you eat. A turk is a potato and a Turk is, well, a Turk. Sort of J.F. Kennedy announcing that he was a sausage ("Ich bin ein Berliner").