> High German, Low German, and Dutch are actually rather specific points
> along a very smooth spectrum. I am told that if you were to walk from
> southern Austria up through Germany all the way up to the Netherlands,

You can even start in northern Italy rather than southern Austria.  Also 
I heard several times that when English people try to speak German it 
often sounds very Dutch, so I guess even though we (in England) have 
mutated the language a fair bit the accent is still there somehow to 
carry on the smooth progression across Europe.

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