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stryeyz in GEMS • 27 days ago

My mom (who grew up in a German speaking household) used to call moths, fleudelmaus. Not sure if I'm spelling that right. The dialect they spoke is "low" German so may have some differences. 😝

27 days ago in GEMS by stryeyz

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scribblingramma 27 days ago

My dad also grew up in a German speaking household speaking low German,or Niederdeutsch. His parents/grandparents came from the northern part of Germany. After I had lived for a few months in Germany in my early 20s, I could understand most of what he said, even though his dialect was different from the one where I stayed. It was a very interesting experience. It's intriguing that your mother's word for moth was so similar to the word for bat.

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stryeyz 27 days ago

My Granddad was a German from Russia. Odessa, which is now in the Ukraine not far from the sea, definitely southern. Many Germans from Russia came to the US.

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scribblingramma 26 days ago

Interesting! I guess those dialects come from many places.

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stryeyz 26 days ago

It's really cool to see the different dialects and meanings!

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