Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:14:29 +0100, D wrote:
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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.

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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.

I do not agree. I agree it is close, but I find it improbable that nothing has changed for a thousand years. They did have a nationalist revival where I think purged some foreign words and tried to move it back a bit.

Baden-Württemberg came up with a humorous advertising campaign - "Wir
können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch".
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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'.
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https://lowlands-l.net/
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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.
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