In 1819
Jacob Grimm, a German linguist, declared: 'Six hundred years ago, every common peasant knew that is to say practised daily perfections and niceties of the German language of which the best language teachers nowadays can no longer even dream'.
The German linguist
Jacob Grimm, however, was more far-sighted than Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, when he stated in the mid-19th century that English would become the world's language.
"Sobre el origen de la lengua" de
Jacob Grimm es un ensayo antiguo, que ha sido profundamente discutido y ha adquirido una cierta cuota de obsolescencia; su inclusion en la "Pequena biblioteca de teoria", sin embargo, es meritoria en tanto y en cuanto es presentada y acompanada por un aporte exegetico que la centra en el debate de la conformacion de la Linguistica como disciplina.
Sixteen color plates inserted in the middle of the book illustrate various locations such as schools and churches that Tolkien attended; the lack of photos of Tolkien and his intimates is notable, and indeed, the only images of people are a portrait of
Jacob Grimm and the bust of Tolkien in the Exeter College chapel.
On my long way home, I remembered how the greatest gift of the storyteller, according to Wilhelm and
Jacob Grimm, is memory, and how she/he must delight in being thoughtful, accurate, vivid.
Originally written by Wilhelm Grimm and
Jacob GrimmThe ghost of
Jacob Grimm is the narrator of this unique
Aan die een kant was daar die Duitse reus
Jacob Grimm en sy volgelinge wat dit wou opeis vir die Duitse kultuur en aan die ander kant die Franse wereld wat hul aansprake van eienaarskap gebou het op die vroee Renard-uitgawe.
Jakob Grimm - the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)