Talk:Jesu bleibet meine Freude

The title of this page is a grammatical error: in "Jesus bleibet meine Freude", "Jesus" is subject, so nominative. Both in "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and "Jesu, meine Freude" (the title of a different motet) on the other hand, there is a vocative, so the omission of 's' is justified, at least when applying latin cases, as seems common practice in German (its use in the English title seems rather pedantic to me, but there is no arguing that this is the English title).

I have intentionally left this page a double redirect. The error is probably sufficiently common to justify the existence of the page, and maybe redirecting to the proper spelling is more informative to those who make the error than silently going to the right page. Also this leaves an asymmetry between the wrong and correct spelling. Marc van Leeuwen (talk) 10:21, 4 April 2010 (UTC)