Truss - Where are you?

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Hi. No just on my travels. I haven't been to Herzogenrath but will be passing through there on my way to Maastricht in a couple of days. Anything I shouldn't miss? :-)

Thanks for link. I couldn't see anything there relating to your discussion with Eric - but it's not that important! Maybe I didn't read the thread closely enough.

well Nieuw Straat / Neustrasse is the road that runs through the town, with Germany on one side (Herzogenrath) and the Netherlands (Kerkrade) on the other. The locals speak Dutch and German interchangeably. You'd never know you moved from one country to the next.

If you want to see a more bizarre border, go to the Dutch/Belgian border village of Baarle (Herzog/Nassau)

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Re: Truss - Where are you?

well Nieuw Straat / Neustrasse is the road that runs through the town, with Germany on one side (Herzogenrath) and the Netherlands (Kerkrade) on the other. The locals speak Dutch and German interchangeably. You'd never know you moved from one country to the next.

If you want to see a more bizarre border, go to the Dutch/Belgian border village of Baarle (Herzog/Nassau)

The enclaves and exclaves in Baarle are mirrored in some of the "Stans" i.e. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan (where I was meant to go before Lockdown descended on us.
As for the interchangeability of Dutch and German, I moved to a location in Germany just 10km from the Dutch border in the 70's and the dialect there (a form of Plattdeutsch) was nearer Dutch than it was German.
I ended up going to evening classes in Germany to learn Dutch in order to get a better grip on the dialect, for which there were no courses available.

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The enclaves and exclaves in Baarle are mirrored in some of the "Stans" i.e. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan (where I was meant to go before Lockdown descended on us.
As for the interchangeability of Dutch and German, I moved to a location in Germany just 10km from the Dutch border in the 70's and the dialect there (a form of Plattdeutsch) was nearer Dutch than it was German.
I ended up going to evening classes in Germany to learn Dutch in order to get a better grip on the dialect, for which there were no courses available.

Plaatdeutsch and Nedersaksisch are the same language (Low German), just different dialects spoken on either side of the border. They're a crude halfway house between Standard Dutch and High (Standard) German, and form part of the overall language continuum (but you know this anyway).