Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 8:24:56 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Althochdeutsch (was: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT) Message-ID: <199603270727.IAA19690@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199603270117.RAA23230@freefall.freebsd.org>; from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Mar 26, 96 5:17 pm
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> Lars Gerhard Kuehl wrote: >> >>> 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?? By grammarians. France is the only country I know of with legal obligations regarding speech. You can tell the difference. Greg
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