David McWilliams
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8 series
first heard Jan 2026
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And you get it in all languages.
I believe in Irish, John, there's a thing called Caidánú na Gaelige, which is the standardization of Irish, which was to trying to put together
You know, Irish from Donegal and Galway.
So all languages have that, or many languages have that.
The French, for example, would have imposed French, which is in effect the language of the Loire Valley, onto various different dialects and various different languages.
All that sort of stuff.
So we think because Hochdeutsch is the language of communication of all the Germans,
that they're in effect all the same people.
They support the same football team, etc.
But when you actually scratch the surface in Germany, I've always felt, and I really, really feel this, that there are two broad types of Germans.
There are
what we called Charlemagne Roman Germans, who emerged actually defined by the Roman Empire.
They are the people who live in West Germany, the people who were defined by the River Rhine.
If you look at Germany, Germany is defined by three or four big rivers, right?
You have the Rhine on the left-hand side, you have the Danube on the south side, and then you have the Oder and the Elbe on the eastern side, right?
And so in effect, Germany is a square in the middle of Europe, which is defined by three or four great rivers.
And of course, that is a function of geography, because what you have is you've got the Alps in the south of Germany, and you've got the Polish and Czech mountains on the southeast.
So all those rivers flow.
And the Baltic Sea in
Yeah, and then the rivers flow either into the Black Sea, the Danube, into the Baltic Sea, the Oder, the Elbe, or into the North Sea, the Rhine.
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