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found this link in an email from a friend...
http://www.beatlemania-hamburg.com/

Cool site, but my Duits is pretty poor. I'll have to go back with my dictionary. The site design is very well done.

The site seems to be still under construction, maybe they add an english choice, they should do !

kiramdear wrote:my Duits is pretty poor.

That's a Dutch word you used there. (At least it means "german" which in german is Deutsch.)

Are you trying to confuse us?

There's English on that site.........

http://www.beatlemania-hamburg.com/english/index.html

beatlefreak wrote:Are you trying to confuse us?

I don't even try. It just happens naturally.

kiramdear wrote:

beatlefreak wrote:Are you trying to confuse us?

I don't even try. It just happens naturally.

I caught that. And I thought you did it on purpose. Just as well; for I'd have used the word "Dietsch" which is Nether-Saxon for German.
JimK

jimk wrote:I'd have used the word "Dietsch" which is Nether-Saxon for German.

Really? In Niedersachsen or only in those areas of the USA where people from Niedersachsen immigrated to?
I think "Plattdeutsch" for "deutsch" is something like "düdsch".

doctorno wrote:

jimk wrote:I'd have used the word "Dietsch" which is Nether-Saxon for German.

Really? In Niedersachsen or only in those areas of the USA where people from Niedersachsen immigrated to?
I think "Plattdeutsch" for "deutsch" is something like "düdsch".

Nä. Ekj meene daut sproak waut de lieda noh Wast Frieslaund, Gronigen, oda Oost Frieslaund räde wan dee tüs senn. Eensje noh Winnepeg Kaunada uck dit räde, un een weinje uck noh Kaunsas, un Nebraska.

JimK


[Translation: No. I mean that language which people in West Friesland, Gronigen, and East Friesland speak when they're at home. Some in Winnepeg Canada also speak it, and a few also in Kansas and Nebraska.]

winston wrote:There's English on that site.........

http://www.beatlemania-hamburg.com/english/index.html

They finally did it. I think the next time I happen to be up north in Hamburg again I will go there for sure .

jimk wrote:Nä. Ekj meene daut sproak waut de lieda noh Wast Frieslaund, Gronigen, oda Oost Frieslaund räde wan dee tüs senn. Eensje noh Winnepeg Kaunada uck dit räde, un een weinje uck noh Kaunsas, un Nebraska. [Translation: No. I mean that language which people in West Friesland, Gronigen, and East Friesland speak when they're at home. Some in Winnepeg Canada also speak it, and a few also in Kansas and Nebraska.]

Nowadays all the local accents spoken in the north-west and west of Germany are called "Plattdeutsch". "Friesisch" (as it is spoken in East and North Friesland) is a completely different language. It is considered to be one of the "endangered" or "dying" languages by the United Nations now. The dialect spoken in the USA and Canada by some of the old immigrants from Northern Germany is different from the "Plattdeutsch" as well, because in the USA and Canada an older version of these German dialects has been conserved.

That's probably what I hear around here. We have a number of Hutterite colonies near here where they speak some German-like language. I can get bits and pieces of it, but I don't really understand a lot of it. Of course, my German isn't what it used to be either...