Re: Official German spelling update

On 2024-07-15, Antonio Marques <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

I'd never thought of _vielen_ as a singular, hence my request.
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It still sounds odd to me. Christian says Dank is to be read as a mass
noun, but I can't quite make that work.
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I'm also a bit puzzled that german children won't instinctively interpret
vielen as a plural.

How so?  There's no preceding determiner, so strong declension
applies.  If "vielen" was plural, it would have to be dative.  Also,
I think "Dank" simply cannot be plural without an ending like -e,
-er, -en, or -s.  And if it was a dative plural noun, it would have
to terminate in -n or -s as a further constraint.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de