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"Germany is a country" - Delusional Cosplayers (infosec.pub)

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[–] ajikeshi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

hochdeutsch actually refers to the "higher altitude" dialects from the south like bavarian, saxon or swabian...

you actually mean standarddeutsch

[–] bmpvy@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

well it's what we call it here in the middle west of germany - hochdeutsch is the opposite to the dialects.

Source: I was born and raised here calling it "Hochdeutsch" lol

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_German

Standard is a form of high german

[–] EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Hochdeutsch refers to Standard High German, the "neutral" or "standard" dialect of the German countries. If you go to a village in Bayern and can't understand them, it's because they're speaking Bayrisch instead of Hochdeutsch