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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: Re: Somewheres Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 08:04:05 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <vbbhkl$7u51$1@dont-email.me> References: <vatljd$mjf9$1@dont-email.me> <pan$446ac$ba5dac04$67ebf9e0$47ac5644@gmail.com> <vb0a62$170hl$1@dont-email.me> <pan$6cdcd$a1e57e8a$8ebe27ea$32af951f@gmail.com> <f5140de8d161885842798961deb38a46@www.novabbs.com> <m31q2260rz.fsf@leonis4.robolove.meer.net> <vb4ejj$2rvka$1@dont-email.me> <slrnvdc4bi.ddb.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <edabf711d308110e032139b1c7757679@www.novabbs.com> <413fad492ea5f969e1cb56bf570b6c49@www.novabbs.com> <slrnvdh927.6rm.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:04:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c741482d8ba1a38443f038f40f3f3c1c"; logging-data="260257"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19IiMWNQsowhvwO9JupMKg9LGfdJq06ZeuvSExeejSmng==" User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2PFGWk5DbkAxD3IGFJnBKlG+4D4= Bytes: 2089 Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Also, endings can be lost in specific grammatical contexts while > persisting elsewhere. Since the reduction of vowels in final > syllables to [ə] between Old and Middle High German, there hasn't > been a general change affecting endings in German, I think. However, > people who studied German as a foreign language are probably very > aware of the masculine/neuter singular strong dative -e, e.g. "mit > dem Kind(e)". I don't know if I *studied* German when learning it in school and later reading in d.e.s.d, but until now I didn't know about that dative form. I don't think that I have met it in songs either. -- Bertel Kolt, Denmark