On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:14:00PM +0100, Dave Long wrote: > At the beginning of the XXI century, dialect is alive and well, > especially on the internet, and after a bit of discussion even I may
On the Internet, too. > discriminate speakers who live about 40 km apart on the basis of > their language. That's nothing. People in the next village (4-5 km, Unterbrunn) speak a distinctly different dialect (not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Austro-Bavarian but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German ). I kid you not. The difference is small, but it's there. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
