An Academic Blog Duo
It’s always a pleasure to have a dialect word that properly belongs in a garden, and this one definitely does. I think the written form probably has an <ö> but is pronounced with an unrounded vowel, hence the <e> in “Merdlan.” I had no idea what this way when I heard first it (on April […]
Here’s where I keep a list of words to harvest later. If you have any dialect word suggestions, please leave a comment! herummurksen
In the Mundartgarten there’s also a plot set out for flowers and the wonderful names they have in dialect. In this entry we’re looking at the term “Naglstock,” which appears in Mathilde Ressmann’s poem “Wenn ih niama bin”: Tua die Vogalan fuattern, wenn ih niama bin, und die Bamlan beguatn im Obstgartlan drin. Die Blüamlan […]
Many of the dialect words I encounter are in printed. Though I interact with dialect speakers fairly frequently, there’s an element of on-the-spot communication that keeps me from remembering new words that might sprout up in the conversation. Sometimes I can figure out the meaning from context while I might be lost at other times […]