• j5906@feddit.org
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    This is the spectrum of dialects you hear when you walk 10km across every european country lol

    I am a non native english speaker but could understand every accent you posted easily, meanwhile most native germans dont understand Platt-german, deep-Bavarian or Swiss-german like at all. You pick up a word or four per sentence but thats about it.

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      We also don’t want to understand the dialects mentioned. Dutchmen can go to Holland and the rest learn German you Schluchtenscheißer.

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        I know this is mostly a joke but it’s also exactly why that shit happens in the first place. Shibboleths to signal group identity.