Amish

Amish women, like other women, are individuals. Some no doubt like to be kissed while being made love to and others may not.

Because the Amish think the dolls wil possess you.

Autism is a spectrum. It's like asking "How many restaurants serve coffee that isn't hot?"

A TSS who worked with autistic children in Lancaster County got upset when that Washington newspaper asserted that autism was unknown among the Amish. It's not. It is diagnosed less often, she admitted,but that's because, in her opinion, the Amish lifestyle is less stressful for kids. Many autistic kids are terribly upset by loud and busy environments.

There's also a financial inventive for schools to get an autism diagnoses for kids that, in Amish schools, are simply considered, "all boy."

It's probably as common in the Amish as in English populations.

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You can find Amish furniture at any time throughout the year in Pennsylvania as many stores keep them permanently in stock all 12 months of the year. A good place to look for Amish furniture is in Lancaster.

An Amish construction worker tends to make the same kind of hourly income that an English construction worker earns. However, as Amish tend to be reliable, hard workers, and customers tend to be impressed by "Amish-built", they often are first-hired and last-fired in periods of economic slowdown.

In the 1980s, a lot of English farmers were battered by high fuel costs, high fertilizer costs, high interest costs, and low commodity prices, with the result that many of them lost up to $100,000 or more instead of having any income for the year. The plain sect farmer down the road grew oats and hay for his fuel, produced organic fertilizer as a byproduct, used equipment that was auctioned cheap because it was too small for the expanding operations of mega-farms - and in many cases, they grew labor-intensive crops such as vegetables, that commanded significantly higher per-acre incomes.

Of late, farming has been profitable, and those who operate mega-farms are doing quite well, and Amish farmers aren't able to scale up to take advantage, but they're probably more profitable in the long run, and a lot of that is due to the fact that Amish farmers are in the habit of paying off their farms quickly. A bank in Lancaster County lends to plain sect farmers, which most banks won't do; since the housing doesn't meet the Electrical Code or have flush toilets, banks cannot package up these mortgages and sell them to investors. Never the less, they are quite happy to make these mortgages because they have a 100% rate of being paid in full, and on time.

There's only so much land, and construction goes up and down, so there are a lot of the plain sects engaged in their own small businesses. They don't buy franchises and try to sell cheap; they try to maximize the labor content, and sell at a premium price. Instead of selling eggs, for instance, they add the eggs to flour and sell egg noodles. They sell produce directly to the consumer, or baked goods, or they make furniture or quilts, again selling at retail instead of wholesale.

In the last five years, unemployment rates have soared - but among the plain sects, unemployment has effectively been zero. That gives them an above average income, simply by avoiding all the economic "valleys."

Add to this the fact that the Amish aren't having buy fancy clothes to work in, aren't having to pay vast amounts to commute to work, and they aren't having to pay anything for child care, and a dollar goes a lot farther.

I wouldn't want to give up air conditioning, flush toilets, microwaves, satellite TV and a button to fill my glass with ice without opening my fridge - but true wealth is being able to buy anything you want, and most plain sect families meet that rule. There are a lot of us English who can't even afford what we need.

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Danke. (Thank you)

Danke Sehr (Thank you very much) or Danke Schoen (Thank you beautifully) are also common expressions of thanks.

The Pennsylvania Dutch language developed from the Low German of three centuries ago. Both PD and LG have changed since that time, but most German is close enough to PD that the Amish can use German Bibles in their worship.

About 1500.

They are shunned.

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It is Amish...if it is homemade.

But you have to be Amish, or else..you are not Amish.

But, homemade.

amish..

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none that i know of

Mostly. Not all Amish Furniture is definitely hand made as certain parts they use may or may not be hand made when they buy these parts from supplies but all the construction is hand made.

They're jealous that they don't get to num num num on the shaved box...

Gangsters Paridise was the song he made into Amish Paradise

Use of horse and buggy is the defining characteristic of the Amish in the United States. But it is not an exclusive trait as there are old order Mennonite groups that do use the horse and buggy as well.

As for subgroups within the Amish, The Old Order Amish are the largest of the sects. Followed by The New Order Amish.

In Pennsylvania they mostly live in Lancaster County and up in north Pennsylvania like 40 or 50 miles out of Allen Town. But mostly in Lancaster, in Pennsylvania they number in the hundreds of thousands.

Amish buggies are merely the standard buggies used by all people in the era of horse-drawn travel. The Amish continue to use them while other groups have accepted more mechanical means of transportation

Pennsylvanian dutch or a rough translation of real dutch.

Not sure what the question asks, but the above statement should be clarified. Pennsylvania Dutch is the language spoken by the Amish. It is a German dialect going back to the time when the Amish first arrived in Pennsylvania in the 17th century. It has evolved over time and is unlike German spoken in Germany.

Real Dutch is a language spoken in the Netherlands (Holland). It is a Germanic language, but unlike German and neither one can understand each other.

Why do they refer to the Amish language as Pennsylvania Dutch? The Germans refer to their language as Deutsch, which sounds a lot like Dutch. In fact Germans call their country Deutschland.

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