Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 24 Dec 2024 01:23:34 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <9f43ab34-3ec7-e654-c9a4-864acfc74923@example.net> <578db959-a6bc-19b4-9edf-0e45a994a3f0@example.net> <5f26b99d-cefb-9b85-1296-0be9aff25a7d@example.net> <50cec39d-ebcd-d9fd-d288-64af77f90bc2@example.net> <04b08dd5-cce3-58d0-39c4-a3fdc28defb2@example.net> <9f9f1b3b-7142-749e-4761-aed0b29fa5bb@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net fGQWQkUoeWgAh2qJEWyHRQiraeSYEnscAGKf8q/EEpYqx8IdAZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:SK4RKOWE5L6tQWDcTRvP075vtRk= sha256:MvFj7vwJybNmRzaHJeQd734UMssSBSm6eMTNDh5hqe8= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62991 On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:14:29 +0100, D wrote: > Anecdotally, I heard a story that once my grandfather visited sweden, > from iceland. And for some reason he and my mother were visiting the > country side in the north where they have a very strange dialect. > Apparently he could speak with an old man there in icelandic, and the > old man could speak this very rare dialect and they would understand > each other. Translators tend to get into cat fights over their versions. One of the Icelanders alleged only they could accurately translate Old Norse since they were still speaking it. Baden-Württemberg came up with a humorous advertising campaign - "Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch". The area has companies like Porsche, Mercedes, Bosch, and other tech firms so 'we can do anything'. The Swabian dialect is about 40% intelligible with standard German, so 'except speak Hochdeutsch'. https://lowlands-l.net/ I was on it a long time ago and don't know how active it is now but it is fascinating how many holdouts there are.