> I would propose that we standardize "Weanarisch" as the standard
> German in all the German speaking countries. That would solve the
> problem once and for all, and, well, it is at then end the only real
> German.
`Weanerisch' is too unspecified. Perhaps the Bradnsee (Breitensee, a
sub-district of Vienna) dialect used in H.C. Artmann's book `Med ana
schwoazzn Tintn' (With a black ink) could become the new lingua franca
for all German speaking people. It would at least sound very funny
for us Viennese :-)
Werner