The sparrow with four sexes (2016)

Re:The sparrow with four sexes (2016) by monkeycantype on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:50PM (#25223773)

30 yrs ago, I rode my bike from East Berlin to Amsterdam, hopping from tiny village to tiny village. I kept out of cities so I could sleep in the forest at night and it seemed as if the the local dialect drifted town by town from deutsch to dutch

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Re:The sparrow with four sexes (2016) by jacquesm on Thursday November 26, 2020 @05:04PM (#25223843)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German

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Re:The sparrow with four sexes (2016) by nl on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:40PM (#25224355)

And heading North: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_languages

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Re:The sparrow with four sexes (2016) by gumby on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:31PM (#25224314)

That’s a good example! I remember being on a train where a woman was reading a book in Dutch to her kids and my then 5 year old son (a German speaker) walked over to sit behind her and listen.

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