Here's an attempt at Rapuncel (Rapunzel) Eins levde en mann ond en frau, di hadde wnschd lang fergeves for en jungling. Lang hopd de frau dat schuld Godd...
OK some of these are obvious, which is why I might have missed them previously. You should view this with UTF-8 encoding enabled. SON n. = son, male offspring...
Hi Dave, I didn't read Rapuncel until the end, but it was nice to read something in Folksprak again. Good work. Having read from your text, I realized that I...
I make PG *h become "j", but only after un-rounded front vowels (e,i). So night is "nacht" [naxt] and might is "macht" [maxt] But *flehtan" (braid/plait)...
I see. But I'm still trying not to make too many distinctions (like front-vowel vs. back-vowel). For instance, I write - cacao - center - citron - cola -...
I encountered a few PG words whose stem end in -kh, whereas their modern germanic representation would seem ugly with "-g" and "-j" would be a better...
Hallo grupp! Ik nem nu en brek av Folksprak. De siden at http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Folksprak wyrk god, ik tnk. Ik tank ju fyr jur help. Til dan! Manig...
I have read David Parke's concise grammar and found it both interesting and amusing. It was indeed a treat to find a Monty Python scene in FS. However, I am...
The difference in pronounciation between d and d-bar and t and t-bar is about as much difference as between Danish "hv" and "v". That is, no difference at all!...
David, thanks a lot for your prompt explanation. I appreciate your grammar; a solid effort stands behind it. Being a native speaker of Swedish, I found your...
Hello Anders and David, Maybe you would like as well to take a look at http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Folksprak/_Grammatik My FS-grammar deals with two...
Thanks for the positive comments about the V2 rule -- it's something that I am not 100% sure about my self. In some ways the V2 rule seems logical and...
I have spoken hastily and wish to correct myself. The Swedish syntax is rigid, but not to 100 %. After checking I realized that the V2-rule does not apply all...
David, in my opinion the V2 order problem could be resolved by using the swedish way of arranging the words in the clause. The verb must fall in the second...
Hi Hugo (and group), I was thinking recently about this, too: http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Folksprak/_Grammatik#Satzformen I agree that we shouldn't put the...
In my opinion the best ones are: "Wan hav du komen, hav ik skon gaen." and "Fridag skal ik sehe him." Always must the verb in the second position be. In the...
Hello Hugo, I think you convinced me. These should be propperly built sentences then: "Min friend kom fridag." "Fridag kom min friend." "Kom hi?" "Wan kom hi?"...
I think that I prefer "Wan hav du komen, ik hav skon gaen." That is, it follows V2 for the main clause. For the subordinate clause, I haven't inverted. I like...
Hi David, I would like to present (at least parts of) your Folksprk as one solution of the FS Project in the German Wikibook. Would you kindly give me the...
... is, it ... haven't ... ambivalent ... But "ik hav skon gaen" is the main clause. You could as well say "Dan ik hav skon gaen" (with "dan" = "wan hav du...
Because in the cases of EN nigh, NL na, DE nah, and scandy nra/nr, the PG *hw has been lost or has become a a vowel as part of a dipthong. Only in German...
Nope, in "wan hav ik komen,..." the "wan" is a part of the main clause. It's serving as an adverb of time or maybe a pronoun. Same as "Fridag" in "Fridag skal...
I think that if I did use an adverb marker, it would probably be "-wîs", since that seems to be more intergermanic than EN "-ly" or Scandy "-t". Đe wît swan...
Thank you David, I was really occupied thinking about my own dialect and from that I really needed a break. But yes, you're right, it wasn't much of a break. ...
Re-nope. ;-) Fridag hav du komen. - Main clause "hav du komen" with "fridag" in first position. Dan hav du komen. - Main clause "hav du komen" with "dan" in...
My KLUGE etymology dictionary "told" me that DE "nach" has a "-kh" at the end of the stem. So I would like to ask you how do you represent these PG stem ...
http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Folksprak/_Dialekt/_Folkspr%C3%A2k Here is where I want to put Folksprâk contents. Dave, if you want to participate, you're more...
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