Re: double time signature problem

[Karlin High]

On 11/14/2017 2:39 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Luther basically has been the last major such moment in German, with the
> shift from Mittelhochdeutsch already being behind.

Here's a "very short introduction" to the German language. It's aimed at 
English speakers, and has a few paragraphs of origins, history, and 
compare-and-contrast with English.

http://www.germanstudies.org.uk/vsigerman.htm

Love that site for its Early New High German online dictionary.

And I just learned something there:

"Der Hund hat den Mann gebissen" and
"Den Mann hat der Hund gebissen"
both mean "The dog has bitten the man".

I knew the Russian language had that word-order feature/bug, but didn't 
realize German did too. My knowledge of German is mostly limited to a 
Schwäbisch-Pfälzisch dialect filtered through 12 generations in America.
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA