From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 26 23:29:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA02886 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:29:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (mail.sni.de [192.109.2.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA02879 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nerv@localhost) by nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA19690 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:27:44 +0100 Message-Id: <199603270727.IAA19690@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Subject: Re: Althochdeutsch (was: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT) To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 8:24:56 MET From: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603270117.RAA23230@freefall.freebsd.org>; from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Mar 26, 96 5:17 pm X-Mailer: xmail 2.4 (based on ELM 2.2 PL16) Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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