"It has been evident for a long time that, of all members of all the Germanic tribes, the Swabian is the most difficult to understand and the most mysterious. In him the most intense contradictions are found. Often, in one individual, meet both extreme boldness and amazing timidity, rebelliousness and philistinism, winning kindness and resentful standoffishness, skilfulness and awkwardness, firmness and instability, mistrust and friendliness, soaring idealism and grounded realisticism."

Fritz Rahn ("Der schwäbische Mensch und seine Mundart")

Translation by Matt Carver (less info)