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Re: Comma gets a cure -- in German?

From:J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
Date:Friday, July 18, 2008, 12:22
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:24:37 +0200, Carsten Becker wrote:
>whether anybody knows if such a text/page exists for comparing German >accents or dialects as well.
There are the Wenkersätze, though they're only single sentences, no coherent text, that served as a basis for the deutscher Sprachatlas more than a hundred years ago. I guess they're more of an historic interest nowadays, but it's still quite interesting: http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb09/dsa/institut/geschichte/wenkersaetze http://www.diwa.info/ -- grüess mach

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