Re: Essentially...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian Thalmann" <cinga@...>


> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Sally Caves <scaves@F...> wrote:
>
>> Even more correct:
>>
>> "It is essential, that You the german Syntax and Punctuation right get
>> must."
>
> Accawding to ze noo Orsographyrules, ze "du" need no longer be
> kepitalized, not even in letters.
Not even in letters? Landsakes, but what else do you kepitalize with... 'less you
meant die Briefe. Besides, that was "Sie", thou fun-sucking native pedant! :)
Which is what I use in formal type letters to formal type folks in formal
Germany.

(Also, this fen-sucking foreign pedant strives for a more old-timer type orthography
that made a useful visual difference in a pronoun already overburdened by
meaning, as Twain put it. And it's funny. ;))

  Ze Cherman Netionelity not to
> kepitalize, on za uzzer Hend, is a kepital Crime.
Not if it be an ADJECTIVE, thou clammering pedantical kepitalist Native! :)
Besides, that's funny too, in English... especially to us old fogey Merkan
students of German.

  I vill now
> proceed to edminister punishment to you in ze fawm of kicking you
> viz ze Boot.  <(:oP
Just TRY, you muck-raking modernistical inkhornist!! :) :) :) Think I cain't kick
back? That is, in the sense of kick back and enjoy myself. ;)

>> > I love German.  Eine schoene sprache, nicht?
>>
>> Essentially.  And capitalize that noun. :)
>
> Look who's tawking.  :)
Ruhe bitte! Lets not make lemons out of lemonade. It's a great essentialism! And
ain't y'all just so high-larious! ;)

Sal

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