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Re: EAK nouns

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Sunday, May 13, 2007, 18:16
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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