Thomas Wier wrote:
>Quoting Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>:
>
> > --- Muke Tever <alrivera@...> wrote:
> > > Actually isn't <oe> often also Anglicized as "long A" /ei/ ?
>
>Not Anglicized; many German dialects have unrounded front
>round vowels. You can see this clearly, for example, in
>most of Schiller's poetry:
>
> Aus der Wahrheit Feuerspiegel Out of the mirror of truth
> Lächelt sie den Forscher an. she smiles on the explorer.
> Zu der Tugend steilem Hügel To the arduous hill of virtue
> Leitet sie des Dulders Bahn. she leads the course of the
> (_An die Freude_) Sufferer. (To Joy)
>
><Hügel> and <Feuerspiegel> do not rhyme in Standard German;
>they do for Schiller.
I don't remember if it was Schiller, but I once saw a German poem where
_heute_ and _beide_ rhymed. Mustn't that sort of distinction collapses cause
some confusion?
Andreas
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