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In a message dated 9/2/00 3:54:05 AM, you wrote:

<<This reminds me the germanic system of year, with 10 months and

some days to fill the year. System used by Tolkien for their fiction

books.


Are there traces of this system in gothic language?>>

For some interesting speculation as to the nature of the Gothic callendar,
check in our archives. Specifically
http://www.egroups.com/message/gothic-l/922

    BTW, hlikon at yahoo.com's post under the subject header  "Re: [gothic-l]
Your methodical approach to construct a 'new Gothic  language' " seems to be
empty of any new comments (unless I missed them) simply reposting an old
post... I'm assuming this was an innocent mistake, but now I'll all
embarassed because in this particular post, I said:

> Well, don't forget other Germanic languages. When we
> are discussing neologisms (which seems to be fairly
> rarely these days) we quite often try to calque
> words from other languages, e.g. Thiudanisks being
> used in the sense of "German"

ARGH!!!! I meant Thiudisks, of course. Thiudanisks means royal! How
embarassing.


-IUSTEINUS

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