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[1990RangerinSK]

Italian and Spanish languages are very similar. Someone speaking Spanish can talk with someone speaking Italian and they will both understand at least 50% of the conversation.


Also I find a lot of people from Mexico assume the Italian flag is actually the Mexican flag, not realizing there is something missing.

From what I understand, High German and Pennsylvania Dutch are also very similar. Actually, if I'm not mistaken, Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect of German, so of course they'd be very similar.

Interestingly, the French spoken in Quebec, Canada (Canadian French) is somewhat different from the French spoken in France. Again, a dialect.

 

[Roert42]

The Pennsylvania “Dutch” are not actually Dutch. Dutch is short for/ derived from Deutschland, Germany.

 

[Snoranger]

The Pennsylvania “Dutch” are not actually Dutch. Dutch is short for/ derived from Deutschland, Germany.

The Pennsylvania Dutch make good Birch Beer...

 

[Curious Hound]

The Pennsylvania Dutch make good Birch Beer...

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I haven't had that in years. Yum!

 

[sgtsandman]

The Pennsylvania Dutch are of German decent as noted above. German for what they call themselves is Deutsch and per normal American fashion, we “English” butchered it.

Fun fact, the vote for English and German being the national language at the founding of the country was a very close vote.

We also nearly joined up with Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire during WWI. Germany then was not the Germany of WWII and the whole origins or WWI were so politically convoluted, we weren’t sure who to team up with at first.

 

[1990RangerinSK]

The Pennsylvania “Dutch” are not actually Dutch. Dutch is short for/ derived from Deutschland, Germany.

Pennsylvania Dutch is a language, not a people group. It's mainly spoken by the Amish, but may also be spoken by Mennonites and Hutterites (but I think the Mennonites and Hutterites speak German).

They actually come from Switzerland.

 

[Dirtman]

Pennsylvania Dutch is a language, not a people group. It's mainly spoken by the Amish, but may also be spoken by Mennonites and Hutterites (but I think the Mennonites and Hutterites speak German).

They actually come from Switzerland.

Not one word of this is true.

But we must come together. We must forge a relationship based on love and respect regardless of our past, regardless of our feelings, it's all about our future! Now is the time. Now we must forget all that is and simply wrap our arms around each other.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Pennsylvania Dutch is a language, not a people group. It's mainly spoken by the Amish, but may also be spoken by Mennonites and Hutterites (but I think the Mennonites and Hutterites speak German).

They actually come from Switzerland.

Mennonites are multiple flavored.

Around here they are fairly normal but the ladies wear dresses with little hats and they all have the newest/fanciest vehicles and equipment... with disabled radios.

 

[sgtsandman]

I have no experience with Mennonites or Hutterites. As far as I know, all we have is Amish here in PA and OH.

I do know at least the Mennonites are more permissive of technology than the Amish. Though I have noticed the Amish using more and more technology. I think the work around is that the stuff they use is not owned by them.

 

[Dirtman]

The shakers make good chairs...

 

[Blmpkn]

The shakers make good chairs...

Eh. They USED to make good chairs, now there's only two shakers left.. and if either of them tried making a chair their poor old arthritic hands would lock right up and never work again.

I live about 10 minutes from the village that's home to the world's last two real shakers. Extremely nice people. My fiances mother would run their gift shop for them before that damn Wuhan flu jacked everything up.

Apparently somewhat recently a younger kid showed up and wanted to.. convert? Idk. Wanted to be a shaker. Not sure if he's still there or not. Takes a real certain individual to live that life.

 

[Curious Hound]

I have no experience with Mennonites or Hutterites. As far as I know, all we have is Amish here in PA and OH.

I do know at least the Mennonites are more permissive of technology than the Amish. Though I have noticed the Amish using more and more technology. I think the work around is that the stuff they use is not owned by them.

There are Mennonites in PA, at least in the Lancaster area.

 

[Jim Oaks]

When I lived in Columbiana County Ohio we had Mennonites. I had moved from an area where there were Amish, and I saw Mennonites as Amish people that drove cars. Mennonite women look Amish, but Mennonite men don't. You can usually still tell Mennonite men by their appearance though.

We eventually had Amish people moving in to the area as well.

 

[Dirtman]

When I worked in Trenton our building maintenance was done by a group of Amish people. They didn't drive but they had a guy drive their van for them. It was really really weird because for one it was the middle of downtown Trenton so you don't exactly see too many Amish folks wandering around and two they somehow knew how to do electrical work but didn't use electricity? That one still keeps me up at night...

 

[Snoranger]

somehow knew how to do electrical work but didn't use electricity?

So they had someone else turn it on to make sure it worked right and didn’t kill them... that’s smart.