Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:17:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> 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: <199603270117.RAA23230@freefall.freebsd.org> 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
>
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