Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 14:45:35 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: lars@elbe.desy.de (Lars Gerhard Kuehl) Cc: lehey.pad@sni.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Althochdeutsch (was: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT) Message-ID: <199603261348.OAA29517@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <9603261244.AA15184@elbe.desy.de>; from "Lars Gerhard Kuehl" at Mar 26, 96 1:44 pm
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>> 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'). Recall, of course, that "Hochdeutsch" was originally a geographical distinction, not an opinion of quality. Niederdeutsch is alive and well and living in the low countries (again, not an opinion of quality). > The first obligatory German spelling and pronunciation rules are now > 94 years old (and only very few people know about the latter). Yep, I know lots of people who don't know correct pronounciation nor spelling. Of course, that doesn't make much difference to a written language. Why 94 years, anyway? I thought my old Duden was over 100 years old. Greghome | help
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