{"id":13724,"date":"2021-02-19T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T08:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/?p=13724"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T10:13:06","slug":"muddersprooch-in-american-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/en\/muddersprooch-in-american-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Muddersprooch in American English"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Palatinate locals, a journey to Pennsylvania is a journey to their inner self. To their own language and culture of the past. For this is where the Pennsilfaanisch Deitsche live\u2014people, who emigrated from the Palatinate, and still maintain their old dialect. In this interview, linguist Dr. Michael Werner talks about a form of Palatinate dialect that knows no \u201calla hopp,\u201d about creepy \u201cElwedritsche\u201d and about marmot Bert, who recently started living in a Palatinate wine barrel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Werner is right on the ball. He holds a wooden figure from Pennsylvania into the camera as soon as the video interview starts. It looks scary: a feathered something with a creepy face. It is an \u201cElwedritsch.\u201d The American mythical creature is not even nearly as funny as its relatives from the Palatinate. \u201cBelzenickel\u201d that Werner shows us immediately afterwards, makes a creepy impression as well: Every year at Christmas, this weird fellow comes to children in Pennsylvania. He is, however, more reminiscent of the grim servant Knecht Ruprecht than of the friendly Saint Nicholas. With these creatures, Michael takes us right into the middle of the history of the Electoral Palatinate and goes on to talk about the traces he has found in the US, points out similarities and refers to connections to as far back as Indian and Germanic mythology. It\u2019s time to bring him back to the present for a moment.<\/p>\n

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Two languages: Street sign in Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/div>\n

wo sonst: <\/strong>Wilkum, wie bischt? (Welcome, how are you?)<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Werner<\/strong>: [laughing] Ganz guud. (Quite fine.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

wo sonst: <\/strong>This is where my knowledge of Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch has already come to an end. Anyway, would I be able to get by with knowledge of the Palatinate dialect in Pennsylvania today?<\/p>\n

Werner<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/em>You\u2019ll be fine as long as you\u2019re in Pennsilfaanisch-Deitschland, the region north of Philadelphia. The Deitsch, or Dutch, which is spoken there, is 80 percent similar to our present-day Palatinate. It equals the Electoral Palatinate dialect that was spoken until the 18th<\/sup> century in an area about 20 kilometres around Mannheim and Heidelberg. But of course there are differences as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Listen and learn: A lesson in Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch.<\/h6>\n
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