Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
I hasten to add the the low in Low Franconian, Low German, etc., is in reference, not to these languages stature or prestige, but to their situation in the Low Countries (Netherlands, Niederland) as opposed to the highlands: cf. Upper and Lower Lusatia, Lower Saxony, etc. Sometimes, instead of flat plains (or steppes) and high mountains, it's just a reference to north and south.

Apparently we posted to Jackie at approx. the same moment. And from a different understanding.
That's interesting. Do you mean by this that Hoch-Deutsch was spoken in the northern parts and Nieder-Deutsch in the south of Germany?
I know the term Neder-Duits, but never really knew the facts.

I only have no idea from where Mars comes in , but fortunately TEd wheeled an interstellar war off. (poor Uranus).


Last edited by BranShea; 04/20/07 07:29 PM.