Re: Creole Romance?

> >_had to_ be from French. Through the text you got the impression

that

> >there was a moral-sociological question hidden here: s-plurals are
> >_bad_ and whoever introduces them into German is also _bad_.
>
> How come? There are lots of German words with the s-plural (both
> in Hochdeutsch and in all Dialekts).

I got the distinct impression that the s-plural is Northern, thus Low
German. Otherwise, you'd have to ask the author, whose name I forgot.
And those s-plurals are all French or other foreign loans, if not
loans from Low German, oder?

>And then there is no other way of
> saying e.g. die Müllers, die Schmidts, die Maiers, die Hubers, die
> Schröders, die Fischers.

That's generally considered to be a genitive s.

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