[PRCo] Re: Trolleys

Harold G. transitmgr2 at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 9 23:39:00 EST 2005


Greetings.  more about international dialects.
The cross border dual power lrt in saarbrook
crosses into France and runs on SNCF track and power
I wonder what diaect the fare inspectors speak.   Harold
-----Original Message-----

From: Donald Galt <galtfd at att.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:46 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Trolleys


>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
>
>




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