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

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 1:25
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