Re: German is too painful to speak

On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Fritz Saxl wrote:

> Ok, ok, but you didn`t have to kill me there, my god.
> You left no room for arguing.. ;-)

Quite the contrary: I created a new one. :-))

> But what you have written also include the northern
> dialects like Plattdeutsch usw?

Of course: they are German dialects too.

> This one here seems to
> me very different from Hochdeutsch...

That's why I underlined that oberdeutsche (like
Bavarian) and mitteldeutsche Mundarten are actually
closer to Hochdeutsch than niederdeutsche Mundarten.
(What's Hochdeutsch after all? A certain kind of
German that's chiefly based on mitteldeutsche types
of German, and partly oberdeutsche ones. Nothing
else.)

> But I fear for the future of my, your, our
> Hochdeutsch. I really do.

Ach was! Nach uns die Sintflut. :-)) (Anyway, in
the long run, some kind of a... cyborg language or
another will prevail. ;))

Servus,
Georg