On 18.04.14 13:26, Peter Blodow wrote: > To be honest, translating into Bavarian would be even easier > sometimes as Bavarian often has a concise way to express things most > like English has (yes, Michael, Austrian and especially Tyrolian is > linguistically a branch of Bavarian). The reason, as I see it, is that > English and Bavarian have close common roots in Midle High German from > which they are descendants, as opposed to today's High German which was > composed rather artificlally, beginnig about matirn Luther's time.
Ah, I remember spending 10 weeks in München, after 28 hrs of German lessons. Managed to converse in Hochdeutsch all of the last evening without resorting to English, but Bayerisch pronunciation left me at the starting post. If you did use that to shorten the translations, all the Germans from north of the Weißwurstäquator would have just as much trouble, wouldn't they? Not knowing any Middle High German, I tend to notice the similarities between the Danish Sønderjysk dialect and English, confirmed by reading that "Saxon" doesn't come from Sachsen, but further north, around Schleswig. Once you start looking, there's commonality all over the place, though often with a bit of vowel bending, and sometimes a systematic consonant softening which initially camouflages the strong connection. Erik -- ... and to avoid the tedious repetition of these woordes 'is equal to' I will sett, as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of parralelles or twin lines of one length, thus = bicause no 2 things can be moare equal. - Robert Recorde, writing in 1557 (quoted by Tubal Cain, in ME No. 4042) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
