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Originally Posted by schutzen-jager
...fwiw - parents growing up parents said that i was of German heritage - later learned that we were Gottscheers - language + words used by them were not understood at all by many other native Germans -
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At one time while in the Army my German was not too bad as I was actually attached to a German unit. But Plattdeutch was way beyond what I could speak or understand. I once stayed at a Gasthaus where the proprietor's wife spoke only Plattdeutch and he had to translate for me what his frau was saying when we gathered in the evenings.
Ron