From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 26 04:46:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA02381 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 04:46:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from elbe.desy.de (elbe.desy.de [131.169.82.208]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA02375 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 04:45:54 -0800 (PST) From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 13:44:38 +0100 Message-Id: <9603261244.AA15184@elbe.desy.de> To: lehey.pad@sni.de Subject: Re: Althochdeutsch (was: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg: > The trouble with old German is that there were many dialects, and > there are extremely few written records. About the only exception is ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ And even those extremely few written records are called 'Althochdeutsch'. It has probably never been used otherwise. The first rather commonly spoken and written 'Hochdeutsch' is that initially used by Luther and D\"urer (who have 'looked onto the people's mouth'). The first obligatory German spelling and pronunciation rules are now 94 years old (and only very few people know about the latter). Lars