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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT
To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu
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From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
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> On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, J Wunsch wrote:
>
>> This Althochdeutsch is an interesting language... i've seen it in
>> school some day, about 20 years back, but certainly nobody here would
>> manage to understand it immediately today.
>
> Nor would I expect an English speaker to understand Old English.  In
> fact, you'd probably have an easier time understanding OE than most
> English speakers.  "Her Cynewulf benam Sigebryht his rices ..."  -> "Hier
> Cynewulf benahm Sigebryht seines Reiches ..."  The verb 'niman' completely
> disappeared, being replaced by Old Norse 'taka', and OE 'rice' only survives
> in the modern 'rich'...

I suspect that Joerg would also understand this quote (from the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) better than he would understand old German of
the epoch.  This is what I was referring to yesterday.

Greg