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Whenever I have language students complaining about how difficult the German language supposedly is, I point out that PIE (Proto Indo European, the supposed ancestral tongue of all Indo-European languages, including English, French, German etc. etc. was a lot more complicated, with up to eight cases, six verb tenses, four separate moods and so on).
— Oct 21, 2012 05:02PM
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It makes sense that East Middle German became more and more the standard (what one would call standard German today). It was a compromise between the High/Upper German or the South and the Low German of the North (but also, Luther's Bible translation was written in East Middle German, which did much to standardise the language, that and the fact that the printing press had been invented).
— Oct 21, 2012 05:11PM
