Herbert Graf wrote:

> The other thing that always fascinated me about German is how almost
> every younger German speaking person knows TWO versions of German. Once
> is their local dialect (where milch sounds like muech, in the case of
> Sterya where my parents of from) and "hoch (sp?) deutsch", which they
> learned in school. 

Yup. I tend to think of Hochdeutsch as a foreign language, one that I read
and write quite well, but don't feel that comfortable speaking. Quite
similar to how I think some Southerners I met might be feeling :)

Gerhard

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