saxitoxin wrote:mookiemcgee wrote:Aren't the dutch the same people who brought us the amish? This seems totally at odds with Confeds thread about Obama trying to take their meat away
I used to think that as well. However, it turns out their language - Pennsylvania Dutch - is actually a corruption of "Deutsch" and is a German derivative.
Or something like that. I don't remember the details.
You are correct about ONE Thing, Saxi, and ONLY ONE, so far:
it turns out their language - Pennsylvania Dutch - is actually a corruption of "Deutsch"
English speakers mistook Deutsch for Dutch.
As far as origins of the Amish:
The Amish (/ˈɑːmɪʃ/; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German and Alsatian origins.[2] They are closely related to Mennonite churches, another Anabaptist denomination.[3] The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, Christian pacifism, and slowness to adopt many conveniences of modern technology, with a view neither to interrupt family time, nor replace face-to-face conversations whenever possible, and a view to maintain self-sufficiency. The Amish value rural life, manual labor, humility, and Gelassenheit (submission to God's will), all under the auspices of living what they interpret to be God's word.
The history of the Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Mennonite Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann.[4] Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish.[5]
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When people refer to the Amish today, they normally refer to the Old Order Amish, though there are other subgroups of Amish. In the early 18th century, many Amish and Mennonites immigrated to Pennsylvania for a variety of reasons. Today, the Old Order Amish, the New Order Amish, and the Old Beachy Amish as well as Old Order Mennonites continue to speak Pennsylvania Dutch, although two different Alemannic dialects are used by Old Order Amish in Adams and Allen counties in Indiana.[6] As of 2021, over 350,000 Old Order Amish lived in the United States, and about 6,000 lived in Canada: a population that is rapidly growing, as the Amish generally do not use birth control.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 12:15 am
