| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 29, 2001, 16:55 |
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Mangiat wrote:> 3) how is it possible that Hannover, in the North, speaks the clearest > version of High German?Because just as Standard Italian is the Tuscan tongue in a Roman mouth, Standard German is Upper German as pronounced by Lower Germans, with strong influence from the conventional spelling. As evidence for the latter point, consider intervocalic /b/, which in every dialect is a spirant; but the standard language prescribes [b]. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
| Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |