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Author: Peter Tunstall
Date: 2004-12-30 19:58:33
Subject: Re: Where to go
Would Luther's Bible be any help with Early Modern German--albeit from the 16th century?
http://mitglied.lycos.de/rcm/bibel_online.htm
This is supposed to be the unrevised text, but with modern spelling.
Peter
> Wow! THANK YOU! I've been scouring the web for information and ran across this project. The Wright MHG scanned book has helped me get a grip on what I'm looking at. :-)
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> Forgive me because this isn't entirely on-topic for this message board, but I'm not entirely sure where to go and would appreciate any pointers.
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> I've been helping in a project to transcribe and translate a number of specialized German documents (fechbücher) from the 15th century. I know very little about German -- just regular exposure past high school 20 years ago -- but have had enough experience with Medieval and Rennaisance-era calligraphy that I can decipher the handwriting. After transcribing it I let the German language guys have at translating.
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> My problem is that not knowing the language very well has been a hinderance. I've been reading through the scanned book on MHG (Joseph Wright), which has helped me understand what I'm looking at, but I'm finding a gap between MHG resources and NHG. The NHG resources I'm finding are primarily modern German &c., but there are peculiarities to this early NHG that just aren't covered, and are too late for the MHG references.
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> Any ideas where I might look for primer information about German during these early NHG years? The Joesph Wright MHG text you have scanned here has helped, but it's still a little early to be a complete help for the grammar of 15th century German.
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> Thank you!
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> James Knowles
> ARMA Ogden, UT webmaster
> http://www.arma-ogden.org/
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| Where to go |
James Knowles |
ARMA Ogden, UT |
2004-12-24 02:51:22 |
| Re: Where to go |
Peter Tunstall |
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2004-12-30 19:58:33 |