= Сообщение: 9699 из 12492 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Gerrit Kuehn 2:240/12 25 Jun 20 11:05:26 Кому : Charles Pierson 25 Jun 20 11:05:26 Тема : Please welcome former fidonet sysop 1:106/976 from Houston,TX FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/12+5eea89a6 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/1120.976+5eea6094 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: LATIN1 ================================= Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/1120.976+a4fc1409 ============================================================================== Hello Charles!
24 Jun 20 09:00, Charles Pierson wrote to Richard Menedetter:
CP> A guy in my army unit had been in Germany for a few years when I got CP> there. He originally was in the northern part in Flemsburg(?)
Flensburg is located in the very North of Germany at the Baltic Sea, close to the Danish border.
CP> transferred to Schwaebisch Hall, she said she couldn't understand the CP> locals. Claimed Swabian was its own language.
The colloquial Low German ("Plattdeutsch") spoken in several varieties in Northern parts of Germany is actually resembling English as both languages have their roots in North Sea Germanic dialects. Swabian, on the other hand, belongs to the Upper German dialects, and is quite a different thing. So, yes, I can understand that this was quite a change for him. :)
Germany as a country didn't exist until less than 150 years ago, and before that there were at times several hundred of smaller "countries" in the same place. All with their own sovereign, their own laws, their own measures (for weight, volume, etc.), their own currency, and also their own dialect. Modern standard German is a Koin language that was basically started with Martin Luther's Bible translation in the 16th century.
