Re: To go "teita" and "atta" instead of "spazieren"

Hi!

Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> writes:
> Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> writes:
> > >...
> > > I take it her 'lect distinguishes -a and -er?
> >
> > Hmm?  Are there those that don't?  I mean not at all?  It is similar
> > in many dialects, but the same?
>
> They're the same in the colloquial language of much of Germany.
Hmm, I haven't encountered a dialect that collapses them.

> I hear that spellings like "Sofer" and "Koffa" are common errors
> among younger pupils.
They are similar in many regions, yes, and the spelling mistakes are
due to the similarity (but then, young pupils often cannot
analytically distinguish long and short vowels although they are
phonemic).  I'm used to mistakes of that kind from primary school.

But I would not know any dialect that has no distinction at all.

**Henrik