[PRCo] Re: Trolleys

[Donald Galt]

On 7 Mar 2005 at 18:02, Harold G. wrote:

> Fred and all.    There is high german and low german.
> Prussian and swiss..
> 
> In France you have French people but also people
> from Normandy. Brittany, Alsacce, Basque and Catalan.
> But one country basically French.  

And in Alsace the local language is . . . still . . . a form of German. It 
manages to persist even though even rurals speak French from earliest school 
years. And even though if Alsatians want to be understood by Germans from just 
across the river they have to speak Hochdeutsch - or perhaps French.

To my ear, Elsässisch sounds a lot like Switzerdütsch - though I doubt that 
either the Swiss or the Alsatians would agree with me.

Don