Would Plattdeutsch be refered to as "Low German" ? My ancestors from Hannover had spoken "Low German" at home and it was not considered as cultured as "High German".
This is a good example of people misunderstanding what Low German means. I
would think that a people that work so diligently crossing every T and
dotting every I in their research would stop making the mistake of referring
to Plattdeutsch as a low language. When the German Government passed a law
making Hoch Deutsch the language that was to be taught in the schools and
spoken on the radio and television the other languages begin to slip by the
way side.
So boys and girls lets stop making the mistake of calling Plattdeutsch a low
language as in class and refer to it as the language that was spoken by the
people of the low lands of Northern Germany.
Jim