Re: 'mouth noises' bad? [was: Re: YAPT]

Hi!

Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> writes:
> On 5 Jan 2005, at 12.02 pm, J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
>
> >> vs Alabama. (What about Amish country vs Germany? How
> >> much do they differ with respect to details of mouth
> >> noises?)
> >
> > Very few, if at all. They differ mainly because of the old-fashioned
> > vocabulary they use.
>
> Really? I thought they'd unrounded their front vowels, at least? Am I
> confusing it with one of the other myriad German dialects?
I thought they spoke a Palatinian dialect, not High German, and
Palatinian does not have any front rounded vowels today either.
However, I never heard Amish.

**Henrik