Ok, I'm confused. They can drive car or truck sometimes? I thought they weren't allowed to handle money, only barter? Somebody wanna explain the Amish rules to me? And since when do Amish care about these of condoms with a prostitute?
I live in Lancaster. I don't know where to start with how bogus this is. The supposed Amish definitely aren't. Even the English (non-Amish) don't sound like Lancastrians. Steven Breit the attorney shown in the beginning is an actual Lancaster lawyer, but he's known mostly for defending DUIs. Gawd this is awful. And the acting sucks too.
And yes they are speaking PA Dutch (it's a lot like German) but without the Lancaster accent.
I live in Lancaster. I don't know where to start with how bogus this is. The supposed Amish definitely aren't. Even the English (non-Amish) don't sound like Lancastrians. Steven Breit the attorney shown in the beginning is an actual Lancaster lawyer, but he's known mostly for defending DUIs. Gawd this is awful. And the acting sucks too.
And yes they are speaking PA Dutch (it's a lot like German) but without the Lancaster accent.
I grew up in an Amish community, and am about two generations removed from being Amish. They speak "Pennsylvania Dutch," which is not "Dutch" at all, but a bastardization of "Duetsch," which is German. So basically, it's a German-based dialect 250 years removed from Germany. And Amish have a rule against graven images, which includes photography. Any self-respecting Amish person avoids still cameras, let alone movie/tv cameras.
Right. There are dozens of different Mennonite congregations, each with different rules. Some are indistinguishable from 'English', some are hard to distinguish from Amish and drive buggys and farm with horses.
Little town by where I grew up had a sect known as 'Black Stockings'. Kinda like Amish only stricter. When those girls got to be about 15 or so they would come to town on Saturday night, change clothes at a friend's house, and it was ON!. They'd be some hard partyin' whoores, and be pulled back together for church the next morning.:supz:
The Pennsylvania "Dutch" were thusly named because when they came over and people asked where they were from, they responded "Deutsch!" which.. we fucked up and misinterpreted as Dutch!.. so.. they're speaking a form of German..
Same here, I live in Lancaster County and an amish farm is right down the street from me. I sure hope the oregano plant they sold me was really oregano
I just wish they'd clean up the horse shit on the road......nothing like driving over fresh horse shit early in the morning, pisses you off!
I am from Lebanon County, PA and I can tell you I know and have met many Amish and Mennonite people, none of which would ever be involved in this show. But people do leave those communities, so who knows. I can also tell you that I speak Pennsylvania German (not well) which is the same German dialect the Amish use. It is an old German dialect, older than the language used today in most parts of Germany. In my opinion the dialect used on the show is a little to polished compared to what I have heard Amish speak. But it is just my opinion as the dialect is slightly different from county to county so who knows and I am not an expert.
I am from Lebanon County, PA and I can tell you I know and have met many Amish and Mennonite people, none of which would ever be involved in this show. But people do leave those communities, so who knows. I can also tell you that I speak Pennsylvania German (not well) which is the same German dialect the Amish use. It is an old German dialect, older than the language used today in most parts of Germany. In my opinion the dialect used on the show is a little to polished compared to what I have heard Amish speak. But it is just my opinion as the dialect is slightly different from county to county so who knows and I am not an expert.
I once bought an Amish hat, bottle of Amish popcorn salt and a really cheap bottle of vodka that would freeze all in the same store. That's really all I got on this subject.
The amish guy down the street pulled his horse and buggy in our driveway the other winter when we had the deep 24" of snow asking to use my snow blower.
They don't need no guns, the can just run you over with their horses, those animals are huge!
Of course, people drove by taking pictures of this....damn tourists!
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