German lesson II: Kravak

3 posts · May 17 2002 to May 17 2002

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:54:06 +0200

Subject: German lesson II: Kravak

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From: Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@w...>

Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:24:48 +1000

Subject: Re: German lesson II: Kravak

> Kafers (no umlaut for me...)

> The reason is that the Umlaut is not just a variant sound. It carries

From: Henrix <henrix@p...>

Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:55:31 +0200

Subject: Re: German lesson II: Kravak

> At 07:54 2002-05-17 +0200, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:

And substitute Ã¥ (a with one big dot) -> aa  ;-)

In swedish we do not even have a name for the little dots above, they are just
other vocals, as different from a or o as i or e.

> How come the 2300 author based their stuff on German ?

They didn't base all names on German, but tried to use other languages than
English, which is a rather nice idea. Some of the first contacts with kÃ¤fer
were with German speakers.

(Though why they translate what the kÃ¤fer calls humans as "Fleischwesen" in
an english text is beyond me!)

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