Re: EAK nouns

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.

I also once read that the 18th century Swedish poet Bellman
sometimes used Latin accusatives, like "hylla Bacchum"
'praise Bacchus', but he was not consistent, and printed
versions use nominative AFAIK.
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/BP 8^)>
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