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. 🤷♀️
I’ve worked on dairy farms in the Florida Panhandle where the backwoods dialect spoken by some very skilled workers was incomprehensible to me.
I have the same problem with Berliners.
Dialects are sometimes confounding. My own English varies between Nyawkese and flat midwestern. But I can fake some British and Australian.