23-02-2020, 04:32 PM
(23-02-2020, 04:12 PM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Since there is actually no spelling in the alemanic language, the question of a rule is rather symbolic.
Nonsense; spelling rules is one thing, but that doesn't mean that anything goes. There are still inherent "rules" as to how language is used, there are just no formal rules as to how to reflect that in writing. But the dialectical readings one proposes do have to make sense to the time and place as proposed.
More importantly grammar and syntax definitely cannot be ignored, and they are less flexible than vocabulary and pronunciation. It is not enough to show that certain word forms exist in isolation, they have to make a grammatically and syntactically acceptable sentence.
As we have seen, this is not always the case in medieval Latin, but it should be when we assume a scribe is writing in his native language. There is a conflict between proposing rare dialectical forms on the one hand and bad grammar and syntax on the other.