Subj : Re: How many languages do you know?
To   : unixl0rd
From : k9zw
Date : Sun Feb 18 2024 21:27:39

On 18 Feb 2024, unixl0rd said the following...
 
 un>  k9> Where I grew up a mixture German/English dialect was common.  Locally
 un>  k9> called "Lakeshore" and not very easy for outsiders.  I never really k
 un>  k9> that we learned this from young onwards, and never thought a second
 un>  k9> thought about it.
 un> 
 un> I've never heard about it. Is it spoken in the US or Germany? Fun fact:
 un> In Paris, people refused to speak to me in French even though it's my
 un> first language. Canadian French does not exactly have a great reputation
 un> in Moliere's country.

West shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin.  An immigrant mashup dialect.

What German I did pick up is rural "farmer talk" which marks you as a rube.

The Spanish we did in school is really Mexican and gets stares in say Barcelona.

I tried watching some former East German TV movies/shows, and was lost with the vocabulary differences.  

Yet somehow it all works out, eh?

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