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I din't compare anything. Also, it looks a lot like you never travelled through Germany from north to south. Every piece of Germany has different traditions, d

by Argorak 14y ago

I din't compare anything. Also, it looks a lot like you never travelled through Germany from north to south. Every piece of Germany has different traditions, dialects and food. I am from a place where I cannot understand people from the next village. Also, all those parts are pretty vocal: I think Germany is the only country that has developed regional Wikipedias (at least Bavaria, Palatinate and Northern Germany).

derleth 14y ago
> I think Germany is the only country that has developed regional Wikipedias (at least Bavaria, Palatinate and Northern Germany). Different varieties of English could do that, but English tends to center on an American/Commonwealth divide with only the two prestige dialects everyone else sees as the only 'valid' ones.
- Argorak 14y ago
  They _could_. But in Germany, those things are reality, which shows that those groups take these matters seriously. My point wasn't that US culture is not diverse, it was that german culture is very diverse _as well_.
  - derleth 14y ago
    Also that Germany didn't exist as a unified country until 1871.
    - coldarchon 14y ago
      It did. That's why it was the "Secound Reich", followed by the infamous third one ..
    - anamax 14y ago
      Alaska and Hawaii didn't become states until 1959. Arizona, which is on the continent, didn't become a state until 1912.
  - anamax 14y ago
    > But in Germany, those things are reality, which shows that those groups take these matters seriously. NASCAR and NFL/College football fans also take such things seriously.
fhars 14y ago
Pennsylvania has one, too: http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsilfaani http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsilfaani
- Argorak 14y ago
  Funny. Its a german dialect :). Good catch, thank you!
pjmlp 14y ago
> I think Germany is the only country that has developed regional Wikipedias At least Portugal (Portuguese, Mirandes) and Spain (Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque) also have articles added in the supported country languages.

by Argorak 14y ago

derleth 14y ago

> I think Germany is the only country that has developed regional Wikipedias (at least Bavaria, Palatinate and Northern Germany). Different varieties of English could do that, but English tends to center on an American/Commonwealth divide with only the two prestige dialects everyone else sees as the only 'valid' ones.

Argorak 14y ago
They _could_. But in Germany, those things are reality, which shows that those groups take these matters seriously. My point wasn't that US culture is not diverse, it was that german culture is very diverse _as well_.
- derleth 14y ago
  Also that Germany didn't exist as a unified country until 1871.
  - coldarchon 14y ago
    It did. That's why it was the "Secound Reich", followed by the infamous third one ..
  - anamax 14y ago
    Alaska and Hawaii didn't become states until 1959. Arizona, which is on the continent, didn't become a state until 1912.
- anamax 14y ago
  > But in Germany, those things are reality, which shows that those groups take these matters seriously. NASCAR and NFL/College football fans also take such things seriously.

fhars 14y ago

Pennsylvania has one, too: http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsilfaani http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsilfaani

Argorak 14y ago
Funny. Its a german dialect :). Good catch, thank you!

pjmlp 14y ago

> I think Germany is the only country that has developed regional Wikipedias At least Portugal (Portuguese, Mirandes) and Spain (Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque) also have articles added in the supported country languages.