<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 06 February 2007 - Volume 13<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
"<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>"</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk
</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Grammar' 2007.02.06 (03) [D/E/V]<br><br><span class="q">>From: "Mathias Rösel" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Mathias.Roesel@t-online.de">
Mathias.Roesel@t-online.de</a>><br>>Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.02.05 (01) [A/E]<br>><br>> "Lowlands-L List" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM">
lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM</a>> schrieb:<br>><br>> From: "<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a> " <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">
heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>><br>>Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.02.04 (08) [E]<br>><br>>German past tense is like in English built with ablaut. Take, took, taken<br>>:<br>>Nehme, nahm, genommen.
<br><br></span><div style="direction: ltr;">I wasn't talking about the strong irregular verbs rather the regular weak<br>verbs<br><br>Ich stelle ich stellte ich schaue ich schaute ich kaufe ich kaufte<br><br>
Heather<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span id="_user_sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><span style="padding: 0pt 1px 1px 0pt;"><img name="_pressandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk" class="bzpb" style="vertical-align: bottom;" src="im/smlnopresence.gif">
</span>Sandy Fleming <<a href="mailto:sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Grammar' 2007.02.02 (02) [E]<br><br>
<div style="direction: ltr;">> From: Jonny Meibohm <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:altkehdinger@freenet.de">altkehdinger@freenet.de</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L 'Grammar'
2007.02.02 (02) [E]<br><br>> Dear Paul,<br>><br>> you wrote about the domination of dative vs genetive in German:<br>><br>> What??!!!??<br>><br>> A quarter of my old declension tables are becoming obsolete????
<br>><br>> No- they are not, by no means, as Gabriele already pointed out! It's<br>> just the popular decline of a language, caused by people (sorry,<br>> Mathias, it's not you I'm thinking at at hte moment...) with bad,
<br>> motherless education. I hate this as well as other people who try to<br>> spoil our good old LS ;-)- but Standard German should be able to<br>> defend itself! LS isn't able...<br><br>But I do include Mathias in this sorry lot, and you Jonny, and myself!
<br>Surely no generation passes on its language to the next unchanged.<br><br>Surely there's no such language as standard German, and surely if there<br>is, it'll soon be obsolete!<br><br>Isn't it true that you need to have up-to-date language books to learn
<br>from? I don't think it's just the teaching methods that have changed<br>between the old "Teach Yourself" books and the new ones - it's also the<br>languages themselves that have changed. You can learn dead languages
<br>from the classics - Sweet's Anglo-Saxon, Gordon's Old Norse, Wright's<br>Gothic and so on - but this doesn't work for living languages.<br></div><span class="sg"><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">
http://scotstext.org/</a></span><br>
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