Talk:däitschsproocheg

For what it's worth, I just want to correct here the "ignorance" of the authors of the quote. The reason why many placenames in Luxembourg are not in their Luxembourgish form is not that stupid Hessian officials mixed them up, but simply that in the 19th century there was no such thing as a Luxembourgish "language" and the names were noted in a standard German form. Often this meant loan translation (Héicht > Höhe, Huewer > Hafer), but sometimes it also meant simple phonetic approximation (hence "Stuel" > "Stohl", which means nothing but is due to the fact that Lux. -ue- is often equivalent to standard German -o-). In other words, the point for them was exactly not to note what they heard but rather what could be a standard German form of the same. And the relative accuracy of what they came up with proves that this was done by native people or at leat with native help. And of course, the same happened with dialectal placenames everywhere, not just in Luxembourg.