After my audition at Eastman, I had dinner at a Chinese/Japanese restaurant in which the diners at the next table were speaking fluent German. After moving to Rochester, I ran into a family speaking German in the stationery aisle. Today I cycled past a German-speaking family along the Eerie Canal south of Pittsford.
Where did they all come from? Ausgezeichnet.
But now I am disillusioned to find that the "Pennsylvania Dutch" actually speak some mutant form of German. Not Dutch. I've never heard it, but apparently a good 300,000 folk speak this Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch. Where have I been all this time that I haven't run into them--not even in Vahl-mahrt?
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