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Originally Posted by celandina
I am schooled enough to agree with you ..or rather as you have "parroted" me that : "... that German is just one of the many Germanic dialects... just like Dutch" .
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Not really parroted because there is some nuance...
How you said it, Dutch would be an offspring/offshoot/derivative from German with German as the Mother-language. Dutch is a Germanic dialect and not a German dialect. Dutch is even closer to English than it is to German.
English: Apple
Dutch: Appel
German: Apfel
Anyway it's very interesting.