Re: Official German spelling update

Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:

14 Jul 2024 11:20:54 GMT: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
scribeva:
 

Antonio Marques <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:

Could you break down _Vielen Dank_ grammatically for us?

 
Certainly! I'd be happy to break down the German phrase "Vielen
Dank" grammatically for you. Let's analyze each component:
 
"Vielen"
 
- Part of speech: Adjective
- Case: Accusative
- Number: Plural

 
Wrong. It's singular here.

(Thanks, Stefan, for the fantastic ChatGPT impersonation, and I mean it 😄
)

I'd never thought of _vielen_ as a singular, hence my request.

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.

I'm also a bit puzzled that german children won't instinctively interpret
vielen as a plural.