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    1. Re: [HESSE] German dialect much differnt from solid German
    2. Heinz L. Zulauf
    3. Not quite sure what your question is referring to. The dialect? If yes, you have to know that the language you call "solid German" only exists a few hundred years and was artificially created for writing purposes. Even today, most of the Germans speak their old dialect in day-to-day life and it is in most cases far away from the so called "Hochdeutsch". I assume, that your "Oberlangsfeld" (not sure that you got the name correctly) is somewhere in North Hesse. The village people there have their own dialect which is to a certain extent related to my own South Hesse dialect, but which is difficult to understand even for me, having grown up just about 100 miles apart. In other words: Germany is a country with many different dialects, where there is one artificially created language called "Hochdeutsch", which people use to have a common language basis. But still, many people in rural areas have difficulties with this language. Heinz

    06/12/2004 05:13:35