Re: Semi OT: Amish Virus

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:38:13 +0000, Exegete wrote:

>
> Sheldon Simms wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:31:33 +0000, Exegete wrote:
>> 
>>>Killy wrote:
>>>
>>>>In article <wySdnbVJ_-VbXGWjXTWJig@comcast.com>,
>>>> "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Go there, ye.
>>>>
>>>>How much time have you spent among the Amish, Bill? Having lived around 
>>>>them for 50 plus years, I've got to tell you, it's a very poor attempt 
>>>>at mocking their speaking of the English language.
>>>
>>>Why not mock their archaic form of Deutsch?
>> 
>> I saw a TV program in Germany that did it, so why can't we? :-) 
> 
> I'll bet Germans don't mock Yiddish though, do they?

I suspect a lot of Germans these days don't know what Yiddish is,
but I have heard Germans complaining about Austrian and Swiss
dialects.

And one time in Austria I tried to buy a pickle with my hot dog
and so I asked for a "Gurken", but the guy wouldn't give it to
me. He just kept saying "It's not a Gurken, it's a Gurk'l". So
finally I had to say "Ok, give me a Gurk'l".