Re: new Klingon spelling
| From: | David Zitzelsberger <davidz@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 16:29 |
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Some of the Mennonnites in that area still speak "Pennsylvania Dutch", which
is actually a form of the German they brought over, not Dutch.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ph. D. [mailto:phild@LNI.NET]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:21 PM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: new Klingon spelling
John Cowan wrote:
>
> English definitely borrowed the form "German(y)"
> from Latin, though. Before the 19th century or so,
> they were "(High) Dutch".
Indeed, I remember reading somewhere that
Pennsylvania was settled by large numbers of
German immigrants. Today they are referred to as
the "Pennsylvania Dutch." But souvenir shops in
Pennsylvania today sell items with pictures of
wooden shoes and windmills on them because in
Modern English, "Dutch" refers to the Netherlands.
--Ph. D.
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