http://www.metafilter.com/tags/PennsylvaniaDutch Posts tagged with 'PennsylvaniaDutch' at MetaFilter. Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:10:59 -0800 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:10:59 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/59555/Behind%2Dthe%2Dbonnet <a href="http://www.clevescene.com/2007-03-14/news/amish-girls-gone-wild/1">Amish Girls Gone Wild?</a> There is a tradition in Amish communities to allow young adult members to experience the outside world and to decide if they will join the church for life. This <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa">Rumspringa</a> period is a time to taste the forbidden fruit of beer, cell phones and dancing. It has spawned a <a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/may/amish/">movie</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/086547687X/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">book</a> and I find personally fascinating.</it> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.59555 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:10:59 -0800 Amish PennsylvaniaDutch Rumspringa UseyurBrain http://www.metafilter.com/53158/Griko%2DLadino%2Dand%2Dethnolinguistics <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griko">Griko</a> is a language used by the descendents of ancient Greek colonists in southern Italy that still has thousands of speakers. <a href="http://skew.ot.com/four/deitsch.html">Pennsylvania Dutch</a>, the only German language native to North America, was used as a first language until well into the twentieth century. <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~benven/ladino.html">Ladino</a> ia a variant of medieval Spanish written in the Hebrew alphabet that florished among refugees from the Spanish Inquisition in modern Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece. Welcome to the world of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnolinguistics">ethnolinguistics</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53158 Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:31:26 -0800 ethnolinguistics german greek griko italian ladino language minorities pennsylvaniadutch spanish huskerdont