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cybalist@egroups.com, "Torsten Pedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
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> No one mentioned the Inguaeones yet?
>
> Torsten
As in Ingvaeonic? That sorta somethingoranother of a classification
of English and Frisian?
I think 'Low German' works sufficiently well.
My parents had a church up on the Minnesota border, where all the
old-timers tell stories about how they had to drop out of school to
attend the two-year catechism from the old-word minister. Trouble
was,
the Evangelical and Reformed's material was in HIGH German, a
language
none of these boys and girls had ever been exposed to. So, the
minister spent most of his time translating the High German
catechetical materials into Low German.
The moral is, as a Low German speaker, unless you live around
Standard
German, you don't know High/Standard German. It really is a different
language.
West German breaks into High and Low German. Low German includes Low
German per se, Dutch Frisian, and of course, English and Scots. Umm.
Franconian.