Re: Who's in Ill Bethisad anyway?

Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> > daniel andreasson wrote:
> > >
> > > Padraic wrote:
> > >
> > > > No.
> > >
> > > Ah, Robert Hailman. I must have missed that. Sorry about that.
> > > It'll be interesting to see what you come up with.
> >
> > Well, in all fairness, I first mentioned it on Conculture last night. I
> > just began working on it not too long ago, and at the moment nothing is
> > really set down enough to post much info about it yet. I've pretty much
> > got the consonant changes and such worked out, but I haven't been able
> > to find much information on vowel shifts in the Germanic languages. I
> > need a way to suitably complicate the relatively simple vowel system of
> > Vulgar LAtin into something befitting a Germanic language. Anyone have
> > any ideas?
> >
>
> i dont know it offhand, but ill look in the library on onday what its
> called, its a book about the evolution of old high german to middle high
> german, if that helps...
Ah. Yeah, that's what I'd be looking for. It'd be great if you could
find the name of a book that'd be helpful. Thanks in advance.

I was thinking I could ask my German teacher, who has her Masters degree
in German, but I remember she commented once that she managed to weasel
her way out of taking the requisite courses on Old High German and the
like. Gurk.

--
Robert