Re[2]: [tied] Frisians & Jutes

At 5:27:05 PM on Monday, November 3, 2008, Andrew Jarrette wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>> --- On Mon, 11/3/08, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

>>> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>

>>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "congotre o"
>>>> <congotron@> wrote:

>>>>> It's not p-IE, but it's impressive at least to me how
>>>>> Frisian looks, and how recognizable it is to an
>>>>> English-speaker.

>>>>> "It hat eigenskip, dat de Fryske bydrage ta de
>>>>> Amerikaenske literatuer tige biskieden is. Der binne
>>>>> einlik mar trije, fjouwer Fryske nammen, dy 't yn de
>>>>> Amerikaenske literaire wrald

wrâld

>>>>> nei foaren komd binne. . . "Faeks is it lykwols net
>>>>> sunder bitsjutting en unthjit

sûnder, ûnthjit

>>>>> dat de namme dy 't yn tiids-folcharder it les

lêst

>>>>> komt ek de meast forneamde is."

>>>>> (It has reason that the Frisian contribution to
>>>>> American literature very modest is. There are only
>>>>> three or four Frisian names that which, in the
>>>>> American literary world forward come are. . .maybe is
>>>>> it similarly not without significance and promise that
>>>>> the name which in time-(?forcharder) it last comes,
>>>>> also the most fornamed is.)

That should be <tiids-folchoarder> 'time-follow-order', and
I'm pretty sure that here <it> is the definite article.

[...]

> I recognize the spelling conventions <ea> and <oa> (but
> the words in which they appear do not correspond to
> English words with those same vowels),

Those aren't spelling conventions in the sense of English
<ea> and <oa>. They're diphthongs -- [I&] and [o&], I
think.

Brian