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Plautdietsch Around The Globe

- A: “Schekj mi doch twee Tambores met Aceite, oba goot lleno. Hia es väl Demanda. Seeh, daut de Calidad goot es.”
- B: “Ekj woa di eascht mol een Tambor schekjen, wiels ekj väl Carga ver’em Camion hab. Kaunst du mi noch Provista schekjen? Von aulem waut.”
- A: “Send me two barrels of oil, but good and full. There’s a lot of demand here. Make sure that the quality is good.”
- B: “I’ll send you one barrel first, since I have a lot of freight in the front of the truck. Can you send me some supplies, too? A little bit of everything.” (Rohkohl 1993)

Notes:

Example reproduced from pp. 49 in: Rohkohl, Kai. 1993. Die plautdietsche Sprachinseln Fernheim/Chaco (Paraguay): Dokumentation des Sprachverhaltens einer russlanddeutschen Mennonitenkolonie. Marburg: N. G. Elwert Verlag.