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Re: OT: Composing (jara: My girlfriend is a conlanger!)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 11:56
Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:


> --- Andreas Johansson skrzypszy: > > > Since Dutch is essentially Low German with an army and a fleet, > > LOL!! Have you got that one, John? > {On a sidenote: you want to call our so-called army an ARMY? ;)) )
I figure it can't be much weaker than Sweden's.
> > and I figure > > that Polish must've been in atleast as much contact with eastern > variants of > > Low German as with NE ones of High German, it seems very possibly that > they > > may've spread along the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts, but getting > wiped in > > Northern Germany by the inroads of High German. > > Also an interesting theory. It would certainly be worth to investigate > it a bit > deeplier and see who of you is right...
I'd be interested to hear the results. Andreas