Horn wrote:
I guess the true spelling of servous as I learned to us it is srvus. An old germanic greeting meaning I'm at your service (in a general way).
The definitions you found were funny but I'd never heard them before. Part of the spelling difference comes from the dialect that my mother spoke which is a very old variation of german different in many ways from hoch deutch which most germans speak. The main differences I notice is the liberal use of umlauts .. For instance. The germans say , sag mal. Which means something like "say what". The dialect version is saga mol (spelling?), with the umlat over the o.
The definitions you found were funny but I'd never heard them before. Part of the spelling difference comes from the dialect that my mother spoke which is a very old variation of german different in many ways from hoch deutch which most germans speak. The main differences I notice is the liberal use of umlauts .. For instance. The germans say , sag mal. Which means something like "say what". The dialect version is saga mol (spelling?), with the umlat over the o.
24. May 2010 12:24:56
horn wrote:
sorry servus not srvus
24. May 2010 12:26:14
Horn wrote:
Kimsan could not access your chapter 7 so I went on to 8.
24. May 2010 12:27:19
Chapter Ten
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