Morningcalm
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Thanks moyang for additional translations! I'll try to enlist a friend to help out with some of them in case clarifications are needed.
Ah, I see.Azalnubizar said:I think my last post might have been a bit misleading. "High German" is what somebody in the past once defined as "Standard German" or German. Anything that differs (compared to High German) is a dialect.
Yeah, that makes sense--but when meeting a leader for the first time, you'd think they'd all consistently use formal sense, they don't all do that. And I suspect that in most cultures being informal with a head of state is considered rude. Maybe if you're brothers/cousins/chess club buddies with another head of state an informal greeting here and there is ok, but beyond that, I don't think so. The most regrettable thing about Civ 5's leader translations is the inconsistency. Some leaders greet you formally PROPERLY, others informally accurately (and when expected), others jumble them up when they hate you (using the formal tense) and when they like you (using the ruder informal tense). I know that in many Asian cultures at least, including Korea, using the informal tense when speaking to a political leader is rude. Very rude. Very, very rude. XDLouis XXIV said:I can't speak for the time period, but I know ancient rulers (even ones that were seen as either God-Kings or messengers of the gods) would often address each other as "brother". The idea was that, among equals, they were addressed informally. Like I said, I don't know how the concern of Europe handled things (short of those who were actually related), so it could be different.
Interesting. Modern High vs Middle High. And it certainly is true that English isn't usually pronounced how it's spelled. It drives my English students crazy! O_o19Mellon73 said:Modern High German is considered as the Standard German today.
- Middle High German (high as moutainous) was the southern Regions native Dialect.
- Low German Dialects (low as flat) -> northern Regions.
Martin Luther translated the Bible into German in his native High German.
In this way High German became standard German.
Northern Germans learned it as a "foreign language", hence they speak the purest
modern High German today