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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Althochdeutsch (was: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT)
To: lars@elbe.desy.de (Lars Gerhard Kuehl)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:17:12 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <9603261244.AA15184@elbe.desy.de> from "Lars Gerhard Kuehl" at Mar 26, 96 01:44:38 pm
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Lars Gerhard Kuehl wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
                                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^
	"obligatory" ??  by grammarians or actually legal obligations
	regarding spelling and speech??

> German spelling and pronunciation rules are now 94 years old (and only
> very few people know about the latter).
> 
> Lars
>