Re: Intergermansk

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/
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Choton: http://www.choton.org
Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/
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