Didn’t occur to me to take offense. We’re good.
I can manage Platt Deutsch by taking all the Hebrew and Slavic words out of my passable Yiddish, so I can understand a lot of German tourists when they come around here. Berlin Prussian is too hard for me phonetically, all those umlauds and compounded consonants.
If you look at post #12 from Netz, I wanted to make sure my post is not twisted into a “I hate Jew” pretzel.
I speak Platt Deutsch, as well.
To me, it’s not just a dialect, it’s a completely different language.
Let’s say, you talk Platt Deutsch to someone from Frankfurt or even further north in Hamburg, Berlin.....they have no clue what you’re talking about. 🤷♀️