... That depends largely on the rest of your ATL. If the situation is similar to *here*, I think neither would be the case. Alsacian would be likely to enjoy a...
<In my FI ATL, Alsace-Lorraine is an independent state from 1815. Do <you think Elsassdeutch *there* would be classified politically _and_ <linguistically as a...
... Well, first of all, I didn't know that Folkspraak had dialects at all! How does that work? Can two people coin the same word, and both possibilities are ...
... 1815. Do ... _and_ ... similar to ... likely to enjoy a ... used only in oral ... communication with ... the status of a ... 1980s. ... Jones How much of...
One could say that folkspraak has nothing but dialects. It isn't standardized yet. The strategy for folkspraak today is to let people use whatever kind of...
... <Jones <How much of the French influence on Elsassdeutsch phonology, <particularly vocalic, dates from 1700 onwards? In 1700 *there*, <France falls apart,...
Swabian Swabian is surrounded by several different Central and Upper German dialects. It has no boundary with a non-Germanic language, unlike High Alemannic in...
... I have since a long time thought how it would be if there still were no Germany, but many separate German states, about all the present Bundesländer plus...
... often ... well ... large ... were no ... languages ... the ... the ... How do you propose to avoid the Reformation and Luther? Internal Catholic reforms? ...
... Of course, not only Luther is against me, but whole the Holy Roman Empire;)... it would be quite hard to imagine all those states equally strong, and the...
... Wonderful, Dan! Thank you for submitting all this very interesting stuff to the list. There is only one problem with your message: it appears truncated in ...
... Zoinks! That might take me ten years to translate, but I can't thank you enough for all of this information. This is everything I needed and more! Thank...
... their ... as to ... let ... standard ... equally ... Luther encourages a common vernacular, but Anabaptists and Calvinists encourage use of local...
Hello all, I have created a group dedicated to the use and promotion of the Pennsylvania German language as spoken in several states in America. My ultimate...
I encountered a small problem today while attempting to download WinXP SP1 - Windows Update automatically redirected to the Japanese version of the site, so I...
Could you please help me with various Germanic-language equivalents of: EN Get well soon NO God bedring DE Gute Besserung e.g. from Dutch, Frisian, Icelandic,...
I posted this same message in a different group, so please do not be too upset, and if I should not do this, I am sorry, but I really need some help with a...
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of any resources (preferably on the web) about Middle English as it was actually spoken by the average English person of...
I do not understand what you meant by that last post. I am sincere in trying to find out about Spoken Middle English, so any help would be appreciated. Clark...
Thanks for the feedback on "Get well soon" (although there were only a couple of responses). I was trying to come up with an idiomatic expression for Jameld. ...
... IIRC it was John Cowan who posted the link to a set of sound fragments to Conlang not so long ago. It was a short conversation between a man and a woman,...
... In Dutch, that would be "Ik wens jou beterschap toe". ... Nice! Especially the short form! ... Shame on me, but I must admit that I haven't one yet....
... In everyone's favorite Føtisklang (because it's the only one around yet :), Ancient Føtisk (Foietisc), I'm thinking maybe 'if wuiesce fie better ...
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