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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:12:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960325200742.1609P-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199603251013.LAA00102@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>

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On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Greg Lehey wrote:

> Thus the verbs at
> the end of subordinate clauses--they didn't exist in German before the
> 15th century.

(my god, I'm citing Althochdeutsch.  WHERE WILL THE MADNESS STOP?)

>From the Muspilli, late 9th century.  Below each line is a word-for-word 
translation into whatever language has the best cognate. Parenthetical 
expressions are for understanding only...

doh uuanit des vilo ... gotmanno

 -> doch waehnen die Viele ... Gottesmaenner

daz Elias in demo uuige aruuarit uuerde,

 -> dass Elias in dem /war/ ruiniert werde,

so daz Eliases pluot in erda kitriufit,

 -> so dass Eliases Blut in Erd trieft,

so inprinnant die perga, poum ni gistentit

 -> so entbrennen die Berge, Baum nicht steht (fest)

enihc in erdu, aha artruknet,

 -> einig (/any/) in Erd, /aqua/ austrocknen,

muor varsuuilhit sih, suilizot lougiu der himil,

 -> /moors/ verschlukken sich, /swelter (burn)/ lange der Himmel,

mano vallit, prinnit mittilagart, ...

 -> Mond faellt, brennt mittel/yard/ (die Welt) ...

Marc.

--
"All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British
manufacture"





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