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george.st@...> wrote:
Well, I think that linguists esp. Germanists will beg
to differ (-: quite the contrary, it's Hochdeutsch
that
has spread, not dialects...
Ok, ok, but you didn`t have to kill me there, my god.
You left no room for arguing.. ;-)
I have left Germany for many years now and I am not a
Germanist, so I can only believe that you`re right.
But what you have written also include the northern
dialects like Plattdeutsch usw? This one here seems to
me very different from Hochdeutsch...
Some years ago I read in the Oldpapers (those news are
now very old...) that in the University of Köln the
students had protested for the use of their dialect in
the classrooms. And I am quite sure that friends and
members of a family do speak in dialects with each
other, and some of these dialects are not easy to
grasp...(like Plattdeutsch). So I may have not the
necessary knolowedge to doubt of your informations,
but I still think that a language which is almost
always so distant from the spoken language as
Hochdeutsch is has not good perspectives of surviving.
But I do love Hochdeutsch ;-) Hochdeutsch is my
Muttersprache and I am not into something like a
Hochdeutschfeindlichkeit. I could even say that I am a
Hochdeutschfreak, because I think it is die schönste
Sprache der Welt, so beautifull and philosophical.
But I fear for the future of my, your, our
Hochdeutsch.
I really do.
Fearing for the future of Hochdeutsch,
Klaus.
(not a dialect fan)
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