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From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: problem building lang/icon on 2.0.5R
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In-Reply-To: <199507180712.JAA09037@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 18, 95 09:12:01 am
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> As Thomas Gellekum wrote:
> > 
> > And I refuse to describe my feelings about the Saxon dialect...
> 
> So why?  Don't you know that hochdeutsch has been taken to more than
> 2/3 from Saxon? :-)

Can we please leave religion and Luther out of a religious dialect
war?

Anyway, I wasn't thinking of the vocabulary and grammar, but sound
and the pronounciation, which is probably what you're referring to
below.

> Ok, it's been a few hundred years ago... and agreed, i can't stand
> those people speaking that extremely slangy Saxon, even though i'm
> born and have grown in Dresden.

Is simply saying `fine' at this point considered good etiquette?

tg

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