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Originally Posted by stepurhan
Well, you may have rough-speaking longshoremen over in Hamburg but ours all have impeccable British accents (and really good table manners)  |
The ones in Hamburg are not rough-speaking (well, maybe some are. But not every person's the same, after all) either, but they most likely will speak Plattdeutsch. Not all of them, but some.
Here is a video of a joke in Plattdeutsch, with the translation into High German. Then there's
this beautiful song sung in the dialect, and
this site which is in Plattdeutsch, so you can see it written down. It also allows you to switch to High German (so you can see the difference), and to English (so you actually understand what is written there).
And yes, it is quite hard to understand.
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