Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben

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The “Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben”:http://www.soviseau.de/verben/ is on a crusade to “strengthen” German verbs, i.e. make them inflect not via regular inflectional endings but via stem-internal Ablaut. They have a proposal “to extend this initiative to English”:http://www.soviseau.de/verben/international.htm, for example making “invite” inflect thus: “invite, invote, invitten”. Silly fun.

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One Response to Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben

  1. Caleb says:

    That is absolutely fascinating! “Silly fun” does describe it well. It is funny to think of saying, “I have invitten my relatives over for dinner.”

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