Am Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:27:08 +0200 schrieb andrel:

> On 17-Oct-08 21:22, Florian Pesth wrote:
>> Am Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:12:57 +0200 schrieb andrel:
>> 
>>>> Funnily enough, she says when I speak Bavarian she can't tell me
>>>> apart from a native!
>>> I guess she simply likes natives.
>> 
>> Well, I usually can understand Dutch better than Bavarian and I don't
>> speak neither ;-)
> 
> OK, trying to incorporate new fact... Bavaria is somewhere between
> England and the Netherlands. Am I close?

I would say it's more close to Austria linguistically. Interestingly (or 
not depending on your view) northern german dialects have some stuff 
common with Dutch - so I think linguistic borders are somehow softened by 
the local language. Even on the east of germany, where there is a bigger 
linguistic border to Polish (beeing a slawic language) there is the 
sorbian language which is closer to Polish.

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