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

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^)>
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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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