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Re: [OT] Grammatic gender
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J Martin Rushton |
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Re: [OT] Grammatic gender |
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Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:57:10 +0000 |
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On 17/11/17 07:55, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
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>
> Some people also think they need to use an apostrophe in dialect words like
> "Mader’l" (Bavarian/Austrian diminutive of "Maid/Mädchen"), and that’s also
> completely wrong, since "-e(r)l" ("-le" in Suebian, "-li" in Swiss German) is
> just a dialect variant of standard German diminutive suffix "-lein".
>
<snip>
>
> Greetlings, Hraban
> ---
> fiëé visuëlle
> Henning Hraban Ramm
> http://www.fiee.net
There is a similar issue with the "apologetic apostrophe" in Scots.
From the 18thC to mid-20thC writers inserted apostrophes where Scots
didn't have a consonant that English does. For instance the English
word "give" is equivalent to the Scots word "gie". The apologetic
apostrophe would render this "gi'e" but this is now frowned upon.
REgards,
Martin
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