Re: Schroeder vs Merkel: A tale of two Germanys


António Marques wrote:
> I don't know, but neither germanys, germanies nor germany's look very
> good to me. What would be the sensible option?
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Is it really worth a question? The most chaotic orthography ever is
English. Everybody knows there is no logic in it. But this is the
highest degree of democracy in view of the German elections tomorrow
whic I believe is more interesting. Do you know what Bernhard Shaw said
about "fish"? However, people are still not that confused as in some
other European languages.

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