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<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 02 February 2007 - Volume 04<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_globalmoose@t-online.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Global Moose Translations <<a href="mailto:globalmoose@t-online.de">globalmoose@t-online.de</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Grammar' 2007.02.02 (02) [E]<br><br><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q">Paul wrote:
<br>>What??!!!??<br>>A quarter of my old declension tables are becoming obsolete????<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Don't
worry. Methinks that Karl-Heinz is trying to pull our legs. The
construction he seems to favour ("Verderblich ist des Tigers Zahn..." -
Schiller) is quite archaic, but apart from that the German genitive is
alive and well.<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q"><br>>>A
book called "Using German" I recently got out of the local library gave
examples of different >>regional grammar including "dieses Bier
(zum beispiel) ist mir.." rather than "dieses... ist >>mein/e.."
It said this was a Northern habit.<br>>That may be Hassian, it's certainly not Northern German.<br><br></span></div>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?" (is that yours?).<br><br>Gabriele Kahn<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span id="_user_altkehdinger@freenet.de" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Jonny Meibohm <<a href="mailto:altkehdinger@freenet.de">
altkehdinger@freenet.de</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Grammar' 2007.02.02 (02) [E]<br><br><p><font color="black" face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Courier; color: black;">Dear Paul,
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<p><font color="black" face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Courier; color: black;">you wrote about the
domination of dative vs genetive in German:</span></font></p><span class="q">
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What??!!!??</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A quarter of my old declension tables are becoming obsolete????</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Courier; color: black;">No- they are not, by
no means, as Gabriele already pointed out! It's just the popular decline of a
language, caused by people (sorry, Mathias, it's not you I'm thinking at at hte
moment...) with bad, motherless education. I hate this as well as other people
who try to spoil our good old LS ;-)- but Standard German should be able to
defend itself! LS isn't able...</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Greutens/Regards<br>
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Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm</span></font></p>
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