Talk:Fancy Dutch

Disagree

"do many of the things commonly associated with the 'Pennsylvania Dutch' in mainstream culture"

I disagree. Infact, many of the things wrongly attributed to the Plain Dutch or more narrowly, the Amish, are actual customs of the Fancy Dutch. Hex signs, Pow-wow folk magic, and many other aspects of Pennsylvania Dutch arts, music, and folklore are actually Fancy Dutch in origin, reflecting the more superstitious attitudes of the Fancy Dutch. By contrast, the Plain Dutch were always more conservative and disciplined, looking down on these things.

dutch

is there any link between the Dutch in the Netherlands and these people? in the pensilvenya dutch article this has been explained but it should be pointed out if its the same case with the plain and the fancy dutch.

The Plain Dutch and the Fancy Dutch ARE the Pennsylvania Dutch. They're just two separate religious-cultural divisions. The same explanation you read about on the Pennsylvania Dutch article applies here. --174.59.224.145 (talk) 02:08, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

The word "dutch" in this context is a corruption of the German word "Deutsch," which means German.--DThomsen8 (talk) 01:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Plain Dutch/Fancy Dutch = Plain Pennsylvanian German/Fancy Pennsylvanian German. Being a "Fancy Dutch" myself, we are NOT DUTCH, from Holland, but Deutsch from southern Germany (Alsace, Baden, Switzerland, Wuerttemberg, etc) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.240.136.239 (talk) 22:56, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

speilwork

What's "speilwork"? I'm sure it's misspelled, Google does not know a word spelt like that, but in what way? --::Slomox:: >< 16:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

The more correct spelling seems to be speilwerk. I changed the article. --::Slomox:: >< 16:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Recent re-introduction of redlink in hatnote

One trigger-happy user keeps trying to insert a redlink to a non-existing disambiguation page, without providing the necessary rationale for this. It's probably going to appear more constructive if you discuss your changes either in your edit summary or on here on the article's talk page. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.169.150.8 (talk) 12:42, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Black Mennonites

Why are Black Mennonites discussed as if they were Fancy Dutch? The Fancy Dutch weren't Anabaptists. Wouldn't it be more appropriate for the article to talk about Black people who were actually Fancy Dutch? Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 10:58, 30 July 2023 (UTC)