Re: USAGE: "thole" vs. "dree"

=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:

> Well, here is a short story translated into several Low German dialects and a
> few other West Germanic languages, including two versions of Scots:
>
> http://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/low-saxon/ns-ls-story.html
Thanks!  There is a lot of "Scots on the wab" once you poke around for it,
and I was able to find the Grimm tale "The Fisherman and his Wife"
(which BTW would make an excellent conlang translation source: short,
repetitive, familiar, not in copyright) in Scots and English as well as
the original Low German that I mentioned a while back.

Oddly, what I couldn't find is a High German translation: only a retold
version that keeps the plot and characters but is not equivalent at the
sentence level.  Is there simply no need for this?

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