Talk:IOMG/@comment-3511509-20110408161937/@comment-1874176-20110408174919

Talking about accents or dialects? Because I think there are a few hundred dialects in Germany (I think German is the language with the most variations in the world); you can go a few miles from one place to another, and people might already speak differently. If I (kinda living in the southeast) go to the north or west and people there speak in their native dialect, I barely understand a word.

Well, that's why standard German was invented...