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Rule of orthography (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

How do you tell the difference when spoken?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Emphasis on different parts and context.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

can germans be all lowkey and cool and disable their autocaps

would sam altman never survive in germany

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pronunciation, context and most importantly most of these sentences wouldn't be used like that. (Except for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily

Lots of spiders where you live?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Austr(al)ia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Good question! Sometimes it's stress but sometimes just context

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Context. In the first two examples both sentences sound exactly the same, but it has never been a problem.

In some examples I‘d maybe expect stronger emphasis on the noun. ‚Sucht‘ (short u) vs ‚sucht‘ (long u) from the last example are pronounced very differently.