what's "Plattdüütsch"?

h&m   Tue May 11, 2010 7:10 pm GMT
huh
tt   Tue May 11, 2010 7:19 pm GMT
Jeez.
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h&m   Tue May 11, 2010 7:23 pm GMT
I don't understand.
Pipette   Tue May 11, 2010 7:46 pm GMT
OMG, SUCH A THING EXISTS? WTF!
Gertsog   Tue May 11, 2010 8:01 pm GMT
Lol, Let Me Google That For You or Plattdüütsch?
.   Tue May 11, 2010 8:33 pm GMT
Plattduuetsch is the form of English still spoken on the European Mainland. See ''Continental English".
JJ   Tue May 11, 2010 9:02 pm GMT
It's dutch spoken with a German accent.
greg   Wed May 12, 2010 4:12 am GMT
Le mot <Plattdüütsch> est la version bas-saxonne du vocable allemand <Plattdeutsch> dont l'équivalent français est <bas-saxon> = <bajo sajón> en castillan.

Voir <Nederduits> et <Nedersaksisch> en néerlandais.

Voir <Niederdeutsch> et <Niedersächsisch> en allemand.

Voir aussi <Plattdütsk> et <Oostfreesk>.
Hamburger Jung   Wed May 12, 2010 4:34 am GMT
It's a German variant, simple as that!
rep   Wed May 12, 2010 11:26 am GMT
Plattdüütsch is Low German (Saxon or Franconian) varieties in Germany. Name of those varieties in the Netherlands and Belgium is Platduits (Nedersaksich) or Platdiets (Nederfrankisch).
Flatteneddeutsch   Wed May 12, 2010 11:53 am GMT
<Plattdeutsch> is (Flat-Deutsch or flat German) meaning the breed of Deutch/German spoken in the vast flatlands of northern Germany.

<Low German> means untermensch/workingman's speech rather than the high German spoken by the German upper classes and the queen of England.
Leasnam   Wed May 12, 2010 3:14 pm GMT
Appropriately, Plattdeutsch represents a modern descendant of Old Saxon dialects spoken on the S coast of the North Sea region. It is therefore not a form of the German language (Hoch Deutsch), but rather a separate language.
Leasnam   Wed May 12, 2010 3:15 pm GMT
<<vast flatlands of northern Germany. >>

--OR-- possibly that it refers to "flat/low" meaning "common, not fancy" as opposed to "high" meaning "sophisticated".
barios orgasmos   Wed May 12, 2010 4:51 pm GMT
Bavarian German is hardly sophisticated.
High means hilly, spoken in hills.
rep   Wed May 12, 2010 5:23 pm GMT
<<Appropriately, Plattdeutsch represents a modern descendant of Old Saxon dialects spoken on the S coast of the North Sea region.>>
Plattdeutsch is group of dialects-descendants of Middle Low Saxon and Middle Low or Middle High Franconian. Kleverlandish dialect is Low German Franconian dialect, the same as Dutch Gelderish dialect, also is called Plattdeutsch:
Kleverlandish:„Ek heb noch efkes afgewaachd, ob dat, wach`e min seggen wold."
Standard German:„Ich habe noch kurz abgewartet, was Du mir sagen wolltest.“
Dutch: „Ik heb nog even gewacht op wat je me zeggen wou.“
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleverl%C3%A4ndisch