We always called them dawdy houses in Ontario.Josh wrote:What on earth is a "dawdy house"?
Is this a way to spell PA German "Grossdaddy Haus"?
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That's what we call them in PA as well.lesterb wrote:We always called them dawdy houses in Ontario.Josh wrote:What on earth is a "dawdy house"?
Is this a way to spell PA German "Grossdaddy Haus"?
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My Amish friends use that term as well. I've been privileged to learn some of their Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch, just bits and phrases. Suffice to say though my Italian is much more fluent.ken_sylvania wrote:That's what we call them in PA as well.lesterb wrote: We always called them dawdy houses in Ontario.
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One of the PA Dutch-speaking ministers in Hartville built a house for his dad (also a minister), which he calls "mom and dad's house" when speaking English, as he tends to do when taking to other English speaking people.
I guess some of us non-native-Dutch speakers can start using Dutch on MN. Alles isht gut.
I guess some of us non-native-Dutch speakers can start using Dutch on MN. Alles isht gut.
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As Max said, it is Deitsch, IT IS NOT DUTCH!!!! Sorry, I'm a bit OCD about that.Josh wrote:One of the PA Dutch-speaking ministers in Hartville built a house for his dad (also a minister), which he calls "mom and dad's house" when speaking English, as he tends to do when taking to other English speaking people.
I guess some of us non-native-Dutch speakers can start using Dutch on MN. Alles isht gut.
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Everyone I know who talks PA Dutch calls the language "Dutch" when speaking English. I am a descriptivist, not a prescriptivist, so I go along with this. If I say "Pennsylvanian German" I get odd looks, and people in Ohio insist they speak it differently than they do in Pennsylvania.
I have one exception: a schoolmistress who corrects everyone whenever they say Dutch (she is a champion of the language and taught her non-Dutch daughter in law to speak it along with grandkids). I think everyone just humours her.
If we get a big influx of folks from the Netherlands to northeast Ohio, this situation may change...
I have one exception: a schoolmistress who corrects everyone whenever they say Dutch (she is a champion of the language and taught her non-Dutch daughter in law to speak it along with grandkids). I think everyone just humours her.
If we get a big influx of folks from the Netherlands to northeast Ohio, this situation may change...
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In my experience, most people don't know the difference, and don't care.Josh wrote:Everyone I know who talks PA Dutch calls the language "Dutch" when speaking English. I am a descriptivist, not a prescriptivist, so I go along with this. If I say "Pennsylvanian German" I get odd looks, and people in Ohio insist they speak it differently than they do in Pennsylvania.
I have one exception: a schoolmistress who corrects everyone whenever they say Dutch (she is a champion of the language and taught her non-Dutch daughter in law to speak it along with grandkids). I think everyone just humours her.
If we get a big influx of folks from the Netherlands to northeast Ohio, this situation may change...
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I'd love to have some way to verify this kind of story, given the pictures on your website.MaxPC wrote:My Amish friends use that term as well. I've been privileged to learn some of their Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch, just bits and phrases. Suffice to say though my Italian is much more fluent.
Or better yet, why not avoid using phrases in Deitsch? To me, at least, it comes across as phony, since it's obviously not your background, and it sounds like you are pretending to be something you are not.
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silentreader wrote: In my experience, most people don't know the difference, and don't care.
Back to the topic of camping
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It depends on where you are what they call them...Not all Amish or Mennonite are created equal!Josh wrote:What on earth is a "dawdy house"?
Is this a way to spell PA German "Grossdaddy Haus"?
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