The name DitunDat has already made some people frown. If you ask Wikipedia, “diundat” means nothing more than this and that, which hits the product variety right on the head.
Certainly, this is not the typical name for a store at this time. However, if you look at our pictures, you will quickly realize that we come from a time when we still went shopping as children in the corner store and grocery store.
The language there as well as in everyday life was Low German. High German met us so properly only with the school enrollment. When parents and grandparents spoke to us in Platt, it was nothing unusual.
We want to say: We grew up bilingual and would like to counteract the extinction of the dialect a little in this way.
Norbert Hesselkamp
Bernward Maspohl
