Re: EAK nouns

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
> On 13.5.2007 Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
>  > This sort of thing was actually common in the speech of
>  > educated Germans some time ago. Latin loans were declined
>  > Latin-wise. It no longer is, though.
>
> I have an only 30 year old German book which uses the
> accusative "Jesum", but that's probably a special case.
Indeed, Latin declension is still in active use in Christian context
for quite some people.  The usage of the accusative and dative forms
is probably rare outside a church, but the genitive 'Jesu Christi' is
the norm.

(Back when I was in school, one girl once used 'Jesus seine Mutter'
for 'Jesus's mother', which was very funny for us: she was using what
is considered a sub-standard form where you usually expect a
'super-standard' Latin form -- quite a funny contrast.)

**Henrik

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