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Comment by alpaca128

3 years ago

I never heard about the "Deppen Leerzeichen" in the context of punctuation, but always when German texts split up compound words with a space for no reason.

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groestl  3 years ago

I think that's the central meaning, but it's used for space before punctuation as well (just a random reference https://www.lass-andere-schreiben.de/blog/kategorie/schreibe...)

  • layer8  3 years ago

    That's normally called https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenken.

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