That's a good question... in the sense of it being interesting...
I like this topic.
I live in an area of Germany, in which "Moselfränkisch" is the main dialect group. As the world "dialect group" implies, there are a lot of dialects within that area. For example, my parents were from different villages. They grew up about 6 miles apart. Not very far, you might think, but while my mother talked "Häsata Platt", my father talked "Kirschpler Platt".
A simple example for all the English language natives: as some probably know, "salad" means "Salat" in German. Now, in "Häsata Platt" that means "Salot". A little different, by really not hard to understand. In "Kirschpler Platt" on the other hand, you say "Schloht", while the "o" is somewhere between a German "a" and a German "o". Hardly understandable for someone not from this region.
Also the different vocabulary and even grammer...it's a "language world" of it's own, so to speak. I mean, a "squirrel" is an "Eichhörnchen" in German...but not where I come from. There it's a "Kawenserich", a "potatoe" is not a "Kartoffel", it's a "Grummbier" or a "belly" isn't a "Bauch", it's a "Panst".
But the dialects are really interesting, nicely usable. The two dialects I grew up with and knew from my two grandfathers are kinda manly, mighty, a little bit rough and tough but still funny at the same time.
Now, the town, that I moved to, to go to the university has it's own dialect (in the Moselfränkischen dialect) which is some kind of a horrible degeneration of this mighty fine dialect I grew up with. Everytime some douchebag kid at a bus stop or a club (or whereever you find them) opens his mouth and this horrible accent burps out of him as if you just kicked a dog in the nuts....I don't know if I should laugh, cry or throw up in my mouth a bit.
