<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 02 February 2007 - Volume 06<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_Mathias.Roesel@t-online.de" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">
"Mathias Rösel" <<a href="mailto:Mathias.Roesel@t-online.de">Mathias.Roesel@t-online.de</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Grammar' 2007.02.02 (02) [E]<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">
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From: <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span>
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LL-L 'Orthography' 2007.02.01 (03) [E]</p>
<p>What??!!!??</p>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">A quarter of my old declension tables are becoming
obsolete????</div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates</div>
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<font color="#0000ff" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="3"> </font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="3"><br>Nope, don't be afraid.
There
still is a way to use genitive case in standard high German. Even
subjunctive is
still alive.<br>-- <br>Mathias<br><br>----------<br><br></font>From: <span id="_user_Ben.Bloomgren@asu.edu" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">"Ben J. Bloomgren" <<a href="mailto:Ben.Bloomgren@asu.edu">Ben.Bloomgren@asu.edu
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Gabriele and all,</font></div><span class="q">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Yes, this is definitely Hessian. My grandmother,
from Marburg, used this construction a lot. She would, for example, hold up a
book and ask, "Ist das dir?"<br></font></div></span>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Where is the Hessian area? The little Hessian I've
heard sounds very close to "Standard German". Where is the area(s) whose
dialect(s) are closest to Hochdeutsch?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Ben</font></font></div></div>
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