RM> Hi Gerrit! 24 Jun 2020 14:10, from Gerrit Kuehn -> Richard RM> Menedetter: RM>>> ALL germans (except maybe Bavaria) speak a very strange german RM>>> dialect ;)))) GK>> Yeah, whatever Austrians and Bavarians may speak, it is certainly GK>> never to be called or mistaken with German at all. ;-) RM> Germany and Austria - separated by the same language ;))
A guy in my army unit had been in Germany for a few years when I got there. He originally was in the northern part in Flemsburg(?) I think was the town. He married a woman from there. When he was transferred to Schwaebisch Hall, she said she couldn't understand the locals. Claimed Swabian was its own language.