Robert Peters wrote:

>It is Saechsisch, the German dialect spoken in Saxony.  It was the dialect
>Wagner spoke.  (Now imagine this giant and guru speaking a dialect which
>always has been the laughingstock of the other German tribes.)

Although he may have retained a Saxon accent, I doubt if Wagner spoke the
Saxon dialect exclusively once he had gone to school, learned High German
and gone out in the world.  After all Wagner was from Leipzig, a large,
sophisticated city, and not from "them thar hills" of Saxon Switzerland.

There is not a single German dialect that is not a butt of humor somewhere
in Germany, some of course more than others.

John Dalmas
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