Re: qriousity

On Sat, 5 May 2001 Frank George Valoczy wrote:
(in reply to this comment of mine:)
>
> > Well, when Czech and proto-High German got mixed up
> > in the border region (Bavaria's "uberfast" area and the
> > adjacent part of Sudetenland), their offspring was so ugly
> > that both parent languages disowned it.
> > Our friend, the good soldier Svejk, was so unkind as to
> > call it "bastard German," IIRC.  --Tommie.
>
> Do you mean, what the soldiers from Kasperske Hory spoke?
>
Yes.  My understanding is that the Austrians and Bavarians
pretty much ignored the hillbillies of their respective portions
of the Bohemian Forest, and that those hillbillies pretty much
ignored the boundary that the Austrians and Bavarians drew
through their midst.  And my understanding is that the language
of those hillbillies was pretty much the same along most of the
length of the Bohemian Forest, on both sides of the border.

I got mildly acquainted with a dialect of that language in
1962-64.  All I still remember about it is that "danke sehr"
was [d'k Se] (like saying "duck shay" in English but swallowing
the "duck"), and that the singular articles "das, die, der" were
all just [d'], and that, though many common nouns were from
Czech, all non-nouns seemed to come from German.

-- Tommie

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