Re: qriousity

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Tommie L Powell wrote:

> 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.
>
Do you mean, what the soldiers from Kasperske Hory spoke?

Or how about that Polish-German mess that one Wasserpolak spoke? Glupy
rolmopsie...=)

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Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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