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Re: Intergermansk

From:Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...>
Date:Thursday, January 27, 2005, 14:07
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:40:13 -0500, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:

>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).
Looks just like it... just another thing that strikes me as really weird.
><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>
Yes, that's also a way to express it :) Also, as others have already mentioned, it's *very* English-centric, I can't see much influences from other languages... -- Pascal A. Kramm, author of: Intergermansk: http://www.choton.org/ig/ Chatiga: http://www.choton.org/chatiga/ Choton: http://www.choton.org Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/ Skälansk: http://www.choton.org/sk/ Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/