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Hi, Ausnahmsweise! (Luschtig, der Nome...)

I was in Freising last week. I braught my friend to the airport and stayed with her brother, who´s living in Freising. Nice place, isn´t it. (Although I prefer living in the black forest.)

I was exported to Germany over 30 years ago by my parents. But I still have this little bit of englishness in me...

Trillians Child should have found you, too, and invited you to the germania connection, I guess. Well, and we´re going back to writing German sometime soon at Bolle´s Berliner Buletten Bude. We had quite a few germanwriteres before the bbc took over. So, perhaps we´ll meet there...

Engländer

Hi Englaender,

Glad you like the name. I really am consistently inconsistent.

I really liked Freising and the area. I lived in town, Kransberg, Haag, Wolferdorf and Marzling. I still have strong connections to Hangenham. I still miss it a little bit. I've been away ten years.

If your friend's brother was around then, he may know me. I drove a red Morgan and was as well known as a "coloured dog". I was active in the Alpen Verein and cross country running.

I have crossed paths with Trillian's Child on the old German forum.


Awu

P.S. Ischt dash Schwaebish, wash Du sprichstsh? (Luschtig?)
Mods. (Is that Schwaebisch, that you speak?)

Ha, jo, in uns´r Gägend w´rd schwäbisch g´schwätz, oba I ko´s net alzu guat. (But sure, we talk schwäbisch around here, but I´m not to good at it). Luschtig is quite a commen term here, so that´s one of the easy ones. But you could write the word this way for many dialects, but they still would sound different, depending on the dialekt spoken.

The written form's close to Bavarian - so I can understand it.
But the "st" that becomes "scht" doesn't happen in the part of Bavaria I was in. The first time I heard someone schpeaking Schwaebish, I thought she had a speach impediment

Schwäbisch is being spoken more often again. Actually it´s the second most hated dialect in Germany after Sächsisch. (Nü gügge mö dö...)