>Yes. German is more genuinely Germanic. So it is a much
>better source of information when studying Germanic
>languages.
Perhaps. But one has to take into consideration that...
"what gives", namely that in German there is an apparatus
of morphologic possibilities still alive and kickin', that
is of greater help than in e.g. Romance languages and English
to build new words by translating (lehnübersetzen). And
this was exercised on purpose by generations of intellectuals
who dealt with a sort of purification of the language, esp.
betw. the 18th-20th c. (Just take a few texts of the 18th
century, you'll be amazed how many Fremdwörter, esp.
French, you'll find in them.)
OTOH, modern German is fulla Fremdwörter though (many
of them English; some even invented by Germans: "handy"
= chell(ular) phone :-)
>Eva
George