Re: reading (was French and German (jara: An introduction))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 8, 2003, 11:21 |
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At 12:34 8.6.2003 +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>It appears to be the Dutch version of the Swedish saying _Den enes död den
>andres bröd_ "The one's death (is) the other's bread", altho' the Dutch one
>contains an explicit copula (I can't explain why the Swedish one does not -
>could this be translated from a Latin original).
Not necessarily. Old Swedish could omit the copula, especially in poetry,
legal texts and proverbial expressions -- the latter of course often being
in bound form.
/BP 8^)
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