As far as German dialects go, Saxon is pretty close to standard German, it’s just that few Germans speak “pure” dialect nowadays, usually it’s closer to an accent. Compare Low German, which is a separate language branch and generally treated as a separate language, too.
See, my “normal” is the kind of Swabian-infused German Stuttgarters think is standard German but apparently anyone else can clock as being Swabian.
Sein oder ned sein, des isch hier die Frage.
It gets worse if I to full tilt into Swabian:
Sei odr ed sei, desch hier d’Fråg.
If you know how that sounds spoken, I think you can see why Saxon would sound odd to me. It’s still German, of course, but the joke that it’s not really German established itself in my family at some point and I can’t shake the habit.
Yeah, always funny listening to those southern Germans, especially the more educated ones where you wouldn’t expect it Ü TBH I’m a bit jealous, Prussia killed almost all local colour in my parts.
As far as German dialects go, Saxon is pretty close to standard German, it’s just that few Germans speak “pure” dialect nowadays, usually it’s closer to an accent. Compare Low German, which is a separate language branch and generally treated as a separate language, too.
See, my “normal” is the kind of Swabian-infused German Stuttgarters think is standard German but apparently anyone else can clock as being Swabian.
Sein oder ned sein, des isch hier die Frage.
It gets worse if I to full tilt into Swabian:
Sei odr ed sei, desch hier d’Fråg.
If you know how that sounds spoken, I think you can see why Saxon would sound odd to me. It’s still German, of course, but the joke that it’s not really German established itself in my family at some point and I can’t shake the habit.
Yeah, always funny listening to those southern Germans, especially the more educated ones where you wouldn’t expect it Ü TBH I’m a bit jealous, Prussia killed almost all local colour in my parts.