Between "Hansel and Gretel" and "The Snow Queen," Jacob Grimm seems to have dabbled in linguistics. Look up "Grimm's Law," and if you can get past the three parts of the chain shift in the Proto-Indo-European stops and fricatives, go out and treat yourself to an ice cream cone!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm's_law
We German people just love the Grimm Brothers- They actually did a lot for the German language. FYI! They didn't write the fairy tales. They actually collected them. There. Now you'll be smarter than the majority of the population. :)
ReplyDeleteOhmygoodness, that's good to know! And cool, too. Yeah, I'll remember that. But yeah, like, talk about amazing ... !
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