Swiss Orthographic Conference

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The Swiss Orthographic Conference ( SOK ) is a language society . It was founded in 2006 by Swiss linguists and users of the press and publishers.

aims

The SOK has set itself the goal of " restoring the uniformity and linguistic accuracy of spelling in the press and literature in Switzerland, which has been damaged by the spelling reform ".

Meetings

The SOK develops recommendations for spelling. At its first conference, which took place on June 1, 2006, it recommended that the press and literature adhere to the principle of “adhering to the conventional method in the case of variants ”. Only different spellings with the same meaning, such as graphic / graphic , but not those with a difference in meaning such as well thought out / well thought out are considered variants .

For those cases in which the application of the principle does not lead to a decision on the spelling, a working group of the SOK created word lists from linguists and practitioners.

At the second conference on October 12, 2006, the SOK presented recommendations with lists of words where the reformed spelling should not be used: foreign words (communiqué) , ä-spellings (stems) , false derivations (quentchen) , derivations of personal names and geographical derivations ( Ohm's law , Sanktgallic ), individual cases (rough) .

At the third conference on May 7, 2007 in the Hotel Greulich in Zurich , the SOK presented its website and initial recommendations for upper and lower case letters. According to this, phrases like "essentially" and "in general", connections with -mal like "each time" and Latin additions like "modus vivendi" should be written in lower case again as before the reform.

At the fourth conference on October 31, 2007 in the Zunfthaus zur Waag in Zurich, the SOK presented its final recommendations on spelling. Among other things, the times of day such as "tonight" should be written in lower case analogous to "this morning" as before the reform, no hyphen should be used when numbers and letters such as "19 years old" meet, and the subjunctive in "if I screamed" should be used marked by a second e .

At its fifth meeting on June 4, 2009 in the Zunfthaus zur Waag in Zurich, the SOK issued a resolution calling on those responsible for politics in the Confederation and the cantons not to let the spelling reform on August 1, 2009 take effect in schools. Because on July 31, 2009, the three-year transition period in Switzerland, during which the conventional spellings were still tolerated, came to an end. National Councilor Kathy Riklin pointed out that her postulate of September 2004, although the Federal Council answered in the affirmative, had still not been fulfilled as desired.

At its sixth conference on May 20, 2010 in the Zunfthaus zur Waag in Zurich , held in cooperation with the Swiss Media Criticism Association , the SOK found that the still lack of uniform and linguistic spelling led to great uncertainty among journalists, schoolchildren, students and increasingly also lead with the teachers. It is unacceptable that the Swiss student dude, which is mandatory for schools, withholds numerous conventional variants that are valid according to the new spelling. The Federal Chancellery's guidelines still contain too many errors. There is a ray of hope in Austria, where the authors have reached a contract with school publishers that their texts in school books may not be adapted to new standards without their consent.

The SOK held its seventh conference on November 13, 2010 as part of the BuchBasel literature festival. The SOK claimed a seat on the German Spelling Council. It was justified because the SOK had established itself as an orthographic competence center in Switzerland in recent years and its recommendations were supported by the Association of Swiss Press and the Conference of Editors-in-Chief. At the conference, the SOK presented its new "guide to uniform and linguistic German spelling", a compact introduction to the recommendations of the SOK. The SOK also led a panel discussion in Basel under the direction of Raphael Zehnder ( DRS2 aktuell) with Jürg Dedial (NZZ), Christoph Eymann (Government Councilor Basel-Stadt), Ludwig Laher (Austrian writer, member of the Spelling Council) and Rudolf Wachter (linguist, Working group SOK). Laher presented the contract with which the Austrian authors achieved that their texts in school books cannot simply be adapted to official spelling standards. The contract is a model; that it is necessary shows how precarious the current situation is.

At the eighth conference on June 27, 2013 at the NZZ Folio in Zurich, Reclam-Verlag announced that, if the author agrees, he will follow the recommendations of the SOK as the “most sensible spelling concept” and not the recommendations of Dudens. From 2015 the Reclam-Verlag followed the official rules with preference for the classic spelling for variants.

At the ninth meeting on November 7, 2014 at the St. Galler Tagblatt , the President of the Association of Swiss Media, Hanspeter Lebrument , said he wanted to work in the association for uniform spelling of Swiss newspapers in accordance with the SOK.

effect

The SOK has succeeded in bringing important representatives of the Swiss and other German-speaking press and publishing sectors to one table. Representatives of language organizations from the Federal Republic of Germany are also involved, for example from Aktion Deutsche Sprache , the Verein Deutsche Sprache and the Deutsche Sprachwelt magazine .

As the first German-language news agency has Swiss News Agency (SDA) decided to follow the recommendations of the Swiss Ortho Graphic conference.

In an open letter to the chairman of the Council for German Spelling , Hans Zehetmair , the SOK criticized in June 2007 that the set of rules still had weaknesses in its third version from 2006 and offered the council to cooperate.

Founding members

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Swiss Orthographic Conference: Conference of June 1, 2006.
  2. ^ SOK, conference on June 4, 2009
  3. ↑ Spelling reform ( memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Association of Swiss Specialized Journalists, June 16, 2009 (press release).
  4. ↑ Stolzverlag, conference report SOK
  5. ^ SOK, conference on November 13, 2010
  6. ↑ Publishers advocate strengthening free communication ( Memento of January 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Association of Swiss Media , September 11, 2008 (PDF; 4 kB).
  7. ↑ Recommendation of the Conference of Editors-in-Chief ( Memento of November 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Editor-in-Chief Conference, September 11, 2008 (PDF; 43 kB).
  8. ↑ Spelling compromise: who writes what how? In: Klein Report . July, 1st 2013.
  9. ↑ Spelling: Reclam no longer follows the SOK. In: Klein Report. 19th January 2017.
  10. ↑ Odilia Hiller: «School must provide the brains». In: St. Galler Tagblatt . November 9, 2014, p. 5.
  11. ^ German spelling at the SDA ( Memento from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Swiss dispatch agency, August 1, 2007 (PDF; 53 kB).
  12. ^ Letter from the SOK to the Spelling Council, June 12, 2007 (PDF; 137 kB)