<div dir="auto">Luxembourgish is an interesting case in point. French grammar with germanic words iirc. Established officially to distance them from the German state. Swiss German shares similar intentional differentiation.<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 10:33 AM <a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a> <<a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">It's more than just the spelling which was broken from the start. After 1066 French speakers and Germanic Speakers had to deal with each other and didn't have the Star Trek translator, much less an Berlitz dictionary. Most of those people didn't read or write. It was enough of a problem to figure out words and grammer. Actually both French and German have well defined rules of grammer, but the two sets are not consistent.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The Brits, Aussies, Kiwi's all have different accents as well. I once spent 3 weeks in Scotland where I had a bit of a problem on account of the language.<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 10:48:52 PM PDT, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <<a href="mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">deirdre@deirdre.net</a>> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">The day I saw this in a tweet, I laughed so hard I had an asthma attack. I tried to tell it to Rick in my non-functional state, but it really works better in print.<div id="m_3367728356310226846ydp9fb50f5ayqtfd15541"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Choice of .signature below is coincidental (albeit a happy accident).<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> -- <br clear="none">> Cheers,<br clear="none">> Rick Moen "I shot a man in German just to watch him the."<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a> -- @drankturpentine <br clear="none">> McQ! (4x80)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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