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Subject: Re: Susan starts posting Author: khms [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 02:17:43 10/26/12 Fri In reply to: Wes 's message, "Susan starts posting" on 20:56:27 10/21/12 Sun Zehn und zwansig Ugh. That's not even remotely close. Try "Zwanzig nach zehn", exactly as in English. she didn’t always think in German but she did a lot. That was a habit that was going to take some breaking, if she really wanted to break it at all Thinking in English all the time doesn't bother me all that much, and I never lived there ... Sic transit gloria mundi.” “Huh?” “The glory is departed,” Susan shrugged. “It’s Latin.” And it actually means "thus passes the worldly glory". [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Susan starts posting Author: khms [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 02:34:34 10/26/12 Fri Hmm. I hear overweight is more of a problem in the US than in Germany. Plattdeutsch is not an accent. There's a northern Germany kind of accent, but it's nothing like Plattdeutsch - Plattdeutsch is almost a different Language, with significant differences in vocabulary and grammar. Not like central or southern Germany, where the local dialect is much closer to an accent. (Don't know about the East.) At the Dutch-German border regions, there's a lot of Frisian - I don't know how that relates to Plattdeutsch. Up north (where I was born) Danish doesn't relate, I believe. There is a small bit of overlap with English in northern Plattdeutsch, however, I think. Not much here at what I believe is the southern end of Plattdeutsch (Münster/Westfalen). I never learned to speak it, and frankly, reading Dutch (which I also never learned) is much easier!

[> [> Subject: Re: Susan starts posting Author: Arthur Keith [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:08:46 10/29/12 Mon Reading Dutch is easier than German since we do not hold to grammatical rules any longer. Ever since the 1950's there have been little rules in place, just about the only real one is where to place the verb in a sentence. Arthur Keith >Hmm. I hear overweight is more of a problem in the US >than in Germany. > >Plattdeutsch is not an accent. There's a northern >Germany kind of accent, but it's nothing like >Plattdeutsch - Plattdeutsch is almost a different >Language, with significant differences in vocabulary >and grammar. Not like central or southern Germany, >where the local dialect is much closer to an accent. >(Don't know about the East.) > >At the Dutch-German border regions, there's a lot of >Frisian - I don't know how that relates to >Plattdeutsch. Up north (where I was born) Danish >doesn't relate, I believe. There is a small bit of >overlap with English in northern Plattdeutsch, >however, I think. Not much here at what I believe is >the southern end of Plattdeutsch (Münster/Westfalen). >I never learned to speak it, and frankly, reading >Dutch (which I also never learned) is much easier!

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Susan starts posting Author: khms [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 03:36:25 10/31/12 Wed >Reading Dutch is easier than German since we do not Not to this German it isn't. It is, however, probably the easiest language for me to read that I never learned. It's really *very* close to German. Closer than Plattdeutsch.