I wish I could just talk like this at work the whole time and not possibly get fired. "Gode daiye, my gode yeomann! What ist that ich canne helpen ye with?"
"Gode daiye, my gode yeomann! What ist that ich canne helpen ye with?"
How easy would it be to "hear" the older spelling? Because most of it reads very easily. The "ich" amuses me to noooo end, because I love parallels between English and German.
I know. The brilliant thing is that, if I repeated myself slowly enough, people might understand what I was trying to say. And that would be beautiful beyond description. Actually, as far as I can tell, English sounds quite a bit more like Dutch than it does German. But all those Teutonic languages have stuff in common. :D
I know. The brilliant thing is that, if I repeated myself slowly enough, people might understand what I was trying to say. And that would be beautiful beyond description.
I get a similar sense of peace and contentment reading middle low German out loud. Not that I do that often.
Actually, as far as I can tell, English sounds quite a bit more like Dutch than it does German. But all those Teutonic languages have stuff in common. :D
Well, Dutch is pretty much what results out of putting Germn and English in a blender and adding a few slices of cheese, right? For me as a German, it isn't all that hard to understand Dutch if it's spoken slowly (not so very unlike middle low German, either, come to think of it) and I'm sure for a Dutch person the same would be true of English and perhaps the other way around.
Thanks for sharing. I wish I could write office correspondence like this...
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"Gode daiye, my gode yeomann! What ist that ich canne helpen ye with?"
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How easy would it be to "hear" the older spelling? Because most of it reads very easily. The "ich" amuses me to noooo end, because I love parallels between English and German.
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Actually, as far as I can tell, English sounds quite a bit more like Dutch than it does German. But all those Teutonic languages have stuff in common. :D
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I get a similar sense of peace and contentment reading middle low German out loud. Not that I do that often.
Actually, as far as I can tell, English sounds quite a bit more like Dutch than it does German. But all those Teutonic languages have stuff in common. :D
Well, Dutch is pretty much what results out of putting Germn and English in a blender and adding a few slices of cheese, right? For me as a German, it isn't all that hard to understand Dutch if it's spoken slowly (not so very unlike middle low German, either, come to think of it) and I'm sure for a Dutch person the same would be true of English and perhaps the other way around.
I love that. *g*
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