Good grief, yes, same here to both what you were saying. I imagine Ziebura was just very exhausted the day she transcribed this...
Either that, or she was just going from memory. You and I have written some stuff in salon that would make me question your command of German and my command of English if I thought we had written it while staring at the text in question, but no, we were summarizing what we remembered.
This said, the brain works in mysterious ways even for princes who have French as their first language, see Fritz writing to Heinrich to arrange their post AW meeting in Dresden, and using a a French word which puzzled me until I figured out he must have been thinking in German and used the literal translation, proving this could happen even to Fritz.
Very true! Bilingualism is complicated. It's possible Ziebura was very fluent in French, but had a moment of what linguists call "linguistic interference" and what laypeople call "a brain fart." ;)
(Who had just marched to Zorndorf and back in the company of German soldiers and without his usual full entourage of French speakers, which might explain it.)
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Re: Random stuff
Date: 2024-08-26 05:15 pm (UTC)Either that, or she was just going from memory. You and I have written some stuff in salon that would make me question your command of German and my command of English if I thought we had written it while staring at the text in question, but no, we were summarizing what we remembered.
This said, the brain works in mysterious ways even for princes who have French as their first language, see Fritz writing to Heinrich to arrange their post AW meeting in Dresden, and using a a French word which puzzled me until I figured out he must have been thinking in German and used the literal translation, proving this could happen even to Fritz.
Very true! Bilingualism is complicated. It's possible Ziebura was very fluent in French, but had a moment of what linguists call "linguistic interference" and what laypeople call "a brain fart." ;)
(Who had just marched to Zorndorf and back in the company of German soldiers and without his usual full entourage of French speakers, which might explain it.)
That does make sense.