Re: qriousity
| From: | Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 5, 2001, 2:22 |
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On Fri, 4 May 2001 Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> I've started to toy about with an idea for a new lang...basically,
> Pahlavi, undergoing High German sound shifts and Slavic
> palatalisations,
> and perhaps agglutinating, from Turkic influence. I can see
> reasonably
> Turkic and Slavic influence, but Germanic??? It might be
> interesting
> though....what do you all think?
Well, when Czech and proto-High German got mixed up
in the border region (Bavaria's "uberfast" area and the
adjacent part of Sudetenland), their offspring was so ugly
that both parent languages disowned it.
Our friend, the good soldier Svejk, was so unkind as to
call it "bastard German," IIRC. --Tommie.
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