Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 13:44:38 +0100 From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl <lars@elbe.desy.de> To: lehey.pad@sni.de Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Althochdeutsch (was: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT) Message-ID: <9603261244.AA15184@elbe.desy.de>
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Greg:
> The trouble with old German is that there were many dialects, and
> there are extremely few written records. About the only exception is
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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
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