"'s scheint m'r wærklich _=as wann=_ du im sinn hätscht in deinǝ altǝ daaghǝ noch n Dichter tsu gewǝ (tsu wærrǝ). Awǝr ich færricht 's iss tsu schpot; du hätscht ǝ paar joor friiǝr aa˛fange sollǝ, dann wær viileicht ebbǝs draus [G. worden] warrǝ."[44] _It appears to me really_ AS IF _you intended in your old days yet to become a poet. But I fear it is too late; you should have commenced a few years earlier, then perhaps something might have come of it._ The next is from the description of a willow-tree with the 'nesht' (pl. of G. _nast_[45]) branches broken by ice.[46] "Er guckt net gans so stattlich meh, Er guckt net gans so gross un' schoe _=Das=_ wie er hut die anner woch Wu'r all sei nesht hut katte noch." .ær gukt net gans soo schtattlich mee ær gukt net gans soo gross un schee, dass wii ær hǝt dii anǝr woch wuu 'r all sei˛ nescht hǝt kattǝ noch. _It_ (nicht mehr) _no more looks quite so stately, it looks not_ (ganz) _quite so large and fine,_ AS THAT _it did the_ (andere) _other week,_ (wo er _where he_) _when it_ (hat gehabt) _has had all its boughs._ At present PG. is exhibiting a tendency to drop G. _zu_ (to), the sign of the so-called infinitive, altho in the following examples perhaps most speakers would use it. Wann fangscht aa˛ [tsu] schaffǝ? _When do you begin_ [to] _work?_ Ich hab aa˛fangǝ schaffǝ. _I have begun_ (_to_) _work._ ... fiil annǝri hen hart prowiirt sich farnǝ naus schaffǝ. (_Rauch._) _Many others_ (have) _tried hard_ (to) _work themselves_ (G. vorn) _forward._ "De mæd ... hen kea so kleany bonnets g'hat di nix sin for hitz odder kelt; es wara rechtshaffene bonnets, das mer aw sea hut kenne ohna de brill uf du."--_Nsp._ Dii meed hen kee˛ soo klee˛ni 'bannǝts' katt dii niks sin f'r hits ǝd'r kelt; ǝs waarǝ rechtschaffǝnǝ 'bannǝts,' dass m'r aa seeǝ hǝt kennǝ, oone dii brill uf [tsu] duu˛. _The girls_ (haben gehabt) _had no such small 'bonnets'_ (die) _which are nothing for heat or_ (kälte) _cold; there were honest 'bonnets' that_ (mir) _one_ (auch) _also could see without putting the spectacles on._ PG. Sometimes distinguishes between the present tense and the aorist, as in Swiss--"er thuot choh" (he does come)-- Sellǝr hund knarrt. _That dog growls_ (has a habit of growling). Sellǝr hund tuut (G. thut) knarrǝ. _That dog is now growling._ D'r mann tuut essa--ær iss am essǝ. _The man is eating--he is at eating._ PG. does not use equivalents to _neither_ and _nor_. G. Er ist _weder_ reich _noch_ arm. _He is neither rich nor poor._ PG. ær iss net reich un net aarm. E. He is _either_ sick _or_ lazy. PG. ær iss krank ǝdǝr faul. (Or, adopting _either_ and its idiom) ǝr iss 'iitǝr' krank ǝdǝr faul.