25.1618, Welcome aboard fellow traveLINGers to Western Europe!

Mon Apr 7 14:13:21 UTC 2014

LINGUIST List: Vol-25-1618. Mon Apr 07 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.1618, Welcome aboard fellow traveLINGers to Western Europe!

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Subject: Welcome aboard fellow traveLINGers to Western Europe!

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Region 8 | Western Europe | Fund Drive 2014

Today we will take you and the LINGUIST List crew to Southern Germany. If you
think that Southern Germany is linguistically boring, you cannot be more
wrong. German dialects can be traced back to different Germanic tribes - they
are often hardly intelligible for someone who knows only Standard German.The
Alemannic dialects are spoken from Swabia, over Baden-Württemberg in Southern
Germany to Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, and western parts of Austria;
Austro-Bavarian dialects are spoken - no surprise here - in Bavaria and
Austria, but also in South Tyrol and parts of Switzerland.

Frankfurt am Main is a great starting point to our visit in Germany; it’s a
historical city which happens to be the financial capital of continental
Europe, and also a main European transit airport. For linguists, an important
point on the route will be Goethe Universität Frankfurt, with its library
holding the biggest in Germany collection of linguistic literature.

When in Frankfurt, you should not miss the historical city hall (Römer), the
Frankfurt cathedral, and historical St. Paul’s church.

When you finally get hungry, try local cuisine: “Handkäs mit Musik”
(literally: cheese with music) - German regional sour milk cheese, topped with
chopped onions and vinegar, and “Grüne Söße” (“green sauce”) - a sauce made
with hard-boiled eggs, oil, vinegar, salt, and seven fresh herbs, including
borage, sorrel, garden cress, chervil, chives, parsley, and salad burnet. The
local drink is “Apfelwein” - called in Frankfurt "Ebbelwoi", "Äppler" or
"Stöffsche", apple wine with a low alcohol content and a tart, sour taste. It
is served in traditional thick glass tumblers.

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