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Re: Intergermansk

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Thursday, January 27, 2005, 0:41
Gary Shannon wrote:


> > > > >I have a copy of the opening of the Pater Noster in > > the 1902 version: > > >Vio fadr hu bi in hevn, > > >holirn bi dauo nam, > > >dauo reik kom, > > >dauo vil bi dun an erd, > > > as it bi in hevn.
> >> --- "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...> wrote: > > Ouch... looks odd (especially that "dauo"). Just > > glad that it's apparently > > long dead already :) > > I just saw the "dauo" as a minor variation of "thou" > and it seemed quite natural to me. >
..and presumably -o marks the possessive (vi/o, dau/o). <unkind pers.opinion>As Lyndon Johnson is said to have said, in another context, "That's the ugliest thing I ever saw..."</unkind pers.opinion>