CHAT: [conculture] CHAT: The centre of the temporal universe,wasTranslation relay
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 20:06 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> High German, specifically Swabian.
*High* German? Strange, I wonder why I misremembered it as Low?
> That is simply the Pennsylvanisch dialect of English! There is no
> direct continuity between that and P. itself.
Are you sure? I'd read that those constructions were from a steadily
anglicized Pennsylvania Dutch.
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