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The German word for "mile" is "Meile", or is it supposed to be "Meil" in this case? /arnewpunkt
It might just be a loan from English. Either way, it's pronounced like "Meil". Also, almost everything about this article is either wrong or misleading. I'll fix and expand it when I get some time. /jimblor
I've had conversations, in German, with several native speakers of this dialect in Fredericksburg. They all seemed to prefer to pepper their speech with English constructions. For example, one individual said, "Das war pretty okay!", referring to my accent. At one point, when my group arrived at a small heritage site, the curator asked if we had "die greene Tickets." None of this really belongs in the article, but I include it here for anyone who might be interested.-- 5th Angel 21:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Words like "cowboy" and "hamburger" are used in German speaking countries, too, so that would be bad examples for Texas-German anglicisms. Hamburgers probably also originate from Germany, so it's not an English word per se (referring to the city of Hamburg). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.110.76.137 ( talk) 05:55, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
There is still a considerable amount of German spoken in Fayette County as well. I am not sure that the dialect is exactly the same as in Fredericksburg, but it is German.
-- F3meyer 12:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
A "Luftschiff" is a Zeppelin, not a "Flugzeug". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.14.24.237 ( talk • contribs) 22:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't get the distinction between the use of "all(e)" in Texas German as opposed to modern. "Der Kuchen ist alle" means "The cake is all (gone)" in most every dialect region except for Bavaria and Austria. Janko ( talk) 22:58, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Is Texas German based on a particular German dialect (like other "diasporan" German dialects)? -- megA ( talk) 13:01, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
"Almost all of these speakers are in either the 18-64 or the 65+ age groups." -- megA ( talk) 13:02, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
“It’s an odd mixture of English and 19th century German,” says Boas ... “Hardly any of the Texas Germans speak alike. There’s a lot of variation in the dialect. Texas German borrows about 5 to 6 percent of its vocabulary from English, creating words like ‘der hamburger’ or ‘der cowboy.’”[3]
This seems to be a quote from Boas's book. However, 'der hamburger' as an example of an 'odd mixture' of German and English is a bit peculiar, as the word that's supposed to be borrowed from English, 'hamburger' is originally a German word (adjectival form for the city of Hamburg). 'Hamburger steak' was replaced by 'hamburger' by 1930, which has in turn been somewhat displaced by the simpler term, 'burger'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KramerNL ( talk • contribs) 14:36, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
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If anyone wants to update the line with an "update needed" tag about the short documentary titled All Güt Things being made into a feature-length film to be completed in 2017, I found this web page with information about a screening of the finished film at the University of Texas (I think) in 2019, but I'm not sure how to add/format it if it's useable. Vielen dank. Metrowestjp ( talk) 07:26, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Edit: I also found this page with more information on the "specifications" tab. Looks like the film was completed March 15, 2019. Apparently it's still only 35 minute long, so not really "feature length". I couldn't find it on IMDB. Thanks. Metrowestjp ( talk) 07:38, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
It's mentioned that Standard American German was developed, yet I haven't really heard much of this outside of this article and German language in the United States with the latter using some of the "standard American German" from sources about Pennsylvania Dutch Davidalejandromc ( talk) 22:09, 3 February 2024 (UTC)