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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 96 8:24:56 MET
From:      Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
To:        jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Althochdeutsch (was: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT)
Message-ID:  <199603270727.IAA19690@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603270117.RAA23230@freefall.freebsd.org>; from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Mar 26, 96 5:17 pm

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> 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



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