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