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   Stefan Ram to Stefan Ram   
   Re: Official German spelling update   
   17 Jul 24 21:08:49   
   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:   
   >For me, it's not so much the genitive here as the absence of   
   >an article that sounds wrong. "Ich wünsche viel des Glücks!",   
   >with an article, would sound bizarre, but less wrong.   
      
     In fact, one can find a few examples of texts of this kind   
     apparently written today on the Web:   
      
   |Apr 15, 2024 · ich wünsche viel des verdienten Erfolges!   
   |Gefällt mir · Antworten. 1 Reaktion. Zum Anzeigen oder   
   |Hinzufügen von Kommentaren einloggen ...   
      
   |und wünsche viel des Guten gerne. Ich wünsche Dir ein   
   |Neu-Entdecken,. das sich aus dem Erlebten speist. Ich wünsche   
   |Dir, Dich zu erschrecken, an dem, was Du ...   
      
     , written, perhaps, with a kind of "poetic license".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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