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=** Brothers Grimm **=

 Brothers Grimm were famous German academics who published lots of fairy tale they collected. They were also very important historians of medieval language. Their close relationship through out lives was the base of their accomplishments.

In the tales that they collected, they usually idealize or excuse those fathers in the tales. Fathers (actually all men in their tales) are either super kind or not even there. And the villains are always the evil stepmothers and stepsisters.They divided jobs up for their works. Jacob did more of the research, and Wilhelm put it into literary form and make it the childlike style. Because their tales are world wide popular, they took the pride of being Germans.

Brothers Grimm also contributed alot on German language, especially Jokob. He made the [|Grimm's law] , a.k.a First Germanic Sound Shift or the Rask's-Grimm's rule. It's a system that describe the inherited Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stops as they developed in Proto-Germanic (PGmc, the common ancestor of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family) in the 1st millennium BC. It's a series of sound shift:  Examples:
 * 1)  Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops change into voiceless fricatives.
 * 2)  Proto-Indo-European voiced stops become voiceless stops.
 * 3)  Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirated stops become voiced fricatives; ultimately, in most Germanic languages these voiced fricatives become voiced stops.
 * p→f
 * t→þ
 * k→x (x later became h)

   Wilhelm (left) and Jakob Grimm (right) from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann http://youtube.com/watch?v=iKbWdgW6sD8 little red riding hood http://youtube.com/watch?v=6jqwrN1czcY cinderella

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