From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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Date: | Friday, May 23, 2008, 7:39 |
On 2008-05-23 Tristan McLeay wrote:> > Probably also no > > > preterite but only one past tense formed with > > > 'have'+participle like modern southern dialects > > > of German (which however use 'be'+participle > > > too, but that should be used only for passive in > > > an auxlang). > > And, unless my sources are wrong, also Afrikaans and Yiddish.But Yiddish **is** a South German dialect! :-) (Swabian to be exact.) /BP