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June 19

German

I'm trying to understand the following German sentences:

   Jede Kündigung bedarf zu ihrer Wirksamkeit der Schriftform. Die elektronische Form ist ausgeschlossen.

Google Translate puts it as:

   Each termination requires the written form to be effective. The electronic form is excluded.

Which is kinda confusing to me. I'm not sure whether it means:

1. Each termination needs to be submitted in physical paper form to be valid. That means all electronics forms are excluded from being valid.

2. Each termination needs to be submitted in physical paper form to be valid. The exception to this is electronic forms, which are also considered valid. Mũeller (talk) 12:23, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The first is correct. What's meant is that you can't have a termination by e-mail. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:27, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Is fax considered "Die elektronische Form" as well or not? Mũeller (talk) 13:11, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This might verge into the domain of "legal advice" rather than linguistic information, but according to some online refs [1] fax might be considered to fall under the "electronic" category here. But IANAL and this isn't really a matter of how to correctly read that sentence grammatically. Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:19, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Mũeller (talk) 02:56, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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