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DFW

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6. Except for a few areas, I find them ALL stubborn

Reply to fierywoman (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 26, 2021, 03:26 AM

Jan 2021

My wife is an exception, but her mom is not. I find the Rhienländer to be the most easygoing of all, and our two girls, who grew up in the Rheinland, embody that. Big city folk from all areas tend to be looser than village folk. Get together a group of Germans from Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Köln, Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Dresden and München, and they’ll have more in common than with people in villages 30 Km away from their home towns.

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A language most people have never heard [View all] DFW Jan 2021 OP

My father (born in Norden) and his parents spoke it. fierywoman Jan 2021 #1

That's Platt, for sure! DFW Jan 2021 #2

My mother said (her family was from near Trier) that Germans considered the Ostfriesisch (?sp) fierywoman Jan 2021 #4

Except for a few areas, I find them ALL stubborn DFW Jan 2021 #6

Kind Of Similar To Pennsylvania Dutch JimGinPA Jan 2021 #3

Linguistically not as close as you might think DFW Jan 2021 #5