Re: Latin - English derivatives, German

>I was not referring to dialects, but
>rather to the most standard of standard German

So did I. But the kind of colloquial German in your region
is Northern German, i.e. it has some peculiarities that
are different from the colloquial German in southern
regions of the... Reich. Thus, in your region nobody will
build the Perfekt for "sitzen" and "liegen" with "sein," but
with "haben." (South of the so-called "Weisswurstaequator"
it is the other way around.)

>E.g., George's "die kochen doch auch [nur] mit wasser"
>is already restricted to a certain context. I mean the use
>of the article in place of the pronoun.

In this case, der+die+das no article, but demonstrative
pronoun. (In my sentence, you can replace "die" with
"diejenigen" or "jene".)

>Eva

George