Re: Aesthetics

On 10/21/07, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
> Northern dialects are interesting too, but in principle perhaps the
> Low German ones are dialects of Dutch and not of German?
IIRC, standard Dutch is Low Franconian while (most? all?) Low German
dialects are Low Saxon, so not quite the same. (There are Low Saxon
dialects in the Netherlands, too; mostly in the northeast, IIRC but
for fairly obvious reasons.)

> Or perhaps Dutch in principle is a dialect of German?
I did read that they considered their language "deutsch" for quite a
while even after the "split" (many hundreds of years ago).

And English still does. (Swift called nl and de "Low Dutch" and "High
Dutch" respectively  IIRC, and even today, "Dutch" is cognate to
"Deutsch".)

Hm, I wonder why you don't hear more of "Netherlandic" from the likes
of people who call Persian "Farsi".

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>