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Fesl was 76 years old. According to his wife, he had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for many years. She described the death as "redemption" for her husband. Most recently, he had lived in ...

When he stopped in Fredericksburg for lunch in the summer of 2001, professor Hans Boas thought he would merely enjoy his sausage, kraut and beer and be on his way. But when Boas, on his way to accept ...

Large language models such as GPT-5 and Llama systematically rate speakers of German dialects less favorably than those using Standard German. This is shown by a recent collaborative study between ...

FREDERICKSBURG — In a tidy wooden kitchen that smells of bread, Elizabeth Behrend slices a hard sausage she's just cut down from the smokehouse and tells about the time she and her husband, August, ...

Language is no barrier between the German dialect band Wibbelstetz and its American audience because its musical message is universal. The five-piece band, performing daily at the Kutztown ...