Posts by Roffaboy

You must be English..

Re: International Recognition

There actually is a continuum: It is called Platt, or Plattdeutsch, and is spoken throughout the East of the Netherlands and, say, from Luxembourg all the way into Ostfriesland and even further north.

Being Dutch I even recognize traces as far East as Berlin. Both in German and Dutch it's only recognized as a dialect.

Much of the linguistic peculiarities actually show all three to be derived from Saxon..

The seperate grammars stem from the 17th century classicist obsession with grammar as such.