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Re: Think, thank, thunk (was Re: Unicode character pickers)

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, March 19, 2006, 13:13
Henrik Theiling skrev:
> Hi! > > veritosproject@GMAIL.COM writes: > >>I've even heard 'brang': [brejN] > > > That'd be the normal form in used in dialectal German here in the > Saarland! (I.e., if the local dialect had a simple past...) > > Standard High German has: > > bringen brachte gebracht (pretty much like English). > > But Saarlandian (and Western Palatinian) has: > > bringe -- gebrung >
In Swedish the verb "to melt" is weak _smälta, smälte, smält_ when it is transitive but strong _smälta, smalt, smultit_ when it is intransitive. AFAIK the only similar case in Standard English is _hang_. I wonder if there are any such cases in German, Dutch or Norwegian? There *ought* to be more of such niceness, but unfortunately the trend among young Swedes is to inflect _smälta_ weakly even when it's intransitive. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se "Maybe" is a strange word. When mum or dad says it it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it means "no"! (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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