Re: Devanagari handwriting?
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 9, 2004, 23:10 |
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:36:05 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:19:28 -0500, J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
wrote:
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>>On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:23:53 +0200, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
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>>There's also a relict of the former presence of a dual in German: The
>>Bavarian dialect pronoun for the second person plural isn't based on the
>>plural of old, but of the dual of old: they say "enk", not "ihr".
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>That's not a relict in *German*, but a relict in *Bavarian*.
>Bavarian is pretty much a language of its own, as it differs quite a lot
>from normal German, so much that it's unintelligible for the normal German.
Not all dialects of a language need to be mutually intellegible. Most
linguists consider the Bavarians to speak German, though I don't doubt that
some linguists may consider the Bavarians not to belong to the German
speaking world.
gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust