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German is badly spelt German. Damn High German consonant shift. (E.g.compare ship, schip, Schip, skib, skip vs. Schiff, or day, dag, Dag, dag, vs. Tag etc.
by vidarh 2y ago
German is badly spelt German. Damn High German consonant shift.
(E.g.compare ship, schip,
Schip, skib, skip vs. Schiff, or day, dag, Dag, dag, vs. Tag
etc. - we'd have a far neater, gradual Germanic transition around the North Sea if Low German had "won".
- kiliantics 2y agoThe book "fom winde ferfeelt" is basically a book-length version of the joke, written by a brazilian who was frustrated with the inconsistency in the rules of the German language.