Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don_from_AZ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Accents. Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:43:00 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: <87o6pl85h7.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> References: <10donsh$17dho$6@dont-email.me> <10dp2m1$1ctkt$1@dont-email.me> <7jtMQ.876831$7Ika.50088@fx17.iad> <4luctlxlmi.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10e0obl$n2t$13@dont-email.me> <10e1f94$7gc2$3@dont-email.me> <10e4q44$16v9t$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2025 03:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="125204213ea3cffead912f3df989b80d"; logging-data="1885619"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/C45OEBvtvM8mbL5CviUHwgNI1gIpsTv8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MO+lppwmXK3huTlpcQLS4rhPHY4= sha1:CZK9M20q1scpiC0k/EMylpzwYPw= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76941 rbowman writes: > On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 11:15:16 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 31/10/2025 20:01, rbowman wrote: >>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:48:43 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> >>>> Catalan is different, quite different, but it is a language on its >>>> own. >>>> And there are other regional languages. I can not understand a speaker >>>> of those languages, just some words. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German >>> >>> There is the 't' and 'd' shift that Lawrence mentioned for US English. >> >> Germanic, Dutch and German and Yiddish definitely migrate 't' towards >> 'd' and mangle past participles. And blow 'w' into 'v' >> >> A lot of rural immigrants were from Holland, in the past. > > Even in the colonial days there was a significant Dutch/German population > in the US. According to the 2000 census, which I think was the last time > they asked, 27% of this state claimed German ancestry, followed by 14.8% > Irish, 12.6% English, and 10.6 Norwegian. The Indians were 7.4% for some > diversity. > > A friend claimed the local Sons of Norway lodge was mostly Germans. They > have a really nice clubhouse, might as well invade. > > I won't claim it's genetic but I had a hell of a time with 'th' when I was > a kid. I don't have a problem with most 'th' words like 'this' 'that' or 'these' 'those', but for some reason I've always had a hard time with the word 'thesaurus'. Or as my grandmother may or may not have said: "My tongue got in the way of my eyeteeth, and I couldn't see what I was saying!" -- -Don_from_AZ-