Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas M. Sharp wrote: > Native language Yorkshire West Riding. > Some Cockney, Brum, Geordie and Scouse. > Also English and more or less perfekt Deutsch, a little Low German > (Plattdeutsch - a language, not a dialect). > Any speakers of Strine on the list? - good on yer' cobbers! > Douglas > > telyt@earthlink.net schrieb: > >>> I came up with the question, how many varieties of languages we speak. >>> >> >> >> My native language is the USA variety of English mit ein bischen Deutsch >> and fluency in x86 assembly and in Kodachrome. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> mail2web - Check your email from the web at >> http://mail2web.com/ . >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > Douglas, You mention Plattdeutsch as a seperate language.... Meine Grossvatter..er My Grandfather was of Pennsylvania German stock- his father had migrated to Liberty, Indiana. The German locals there spoke what was there called Plattdeutsche. It had somehow been diluted with words from der English- they'd tell you to 'outen der light' when you left a room. That sort of thing. I always though Low German was what was spoken in the areas near the Low Countries, near the western borders- and was different from the High German the Northern Prussians and I think Westphalians spoke. This didn't discount the fact that the Bavarians speak something that only vaguely resembles any German I was ever exposed to! :o) Dan ( "I' mocht' so gern ein Masskrug sein- so grosse vie ganz Bayern!") Post