One Standard German Axiom

[2] OSGA is used to describe the long-standing "scepticism" or "outright rejection" in German dialectology and linguistics towards the idea of multiple standard varieties.

[17] More recently, connections of pre- and postwar German dialectology have been made explicit, centred in the Austrian dialectologist Eberhard Kranzmayer, who lived, according to Dollinger, by OSGA.

One peer-reviewer for Oxford University Press, assessed Dollinger's print-ready manuscript as “not publishable“ because for this "clearance reader" it represented the perspective “of an Austrian more concerned about his linguistic identity, than as an academic soberly gauging the debate“.

[20] Nils Langer, specialist of Frisian raises doubts about Dollinger's argument, dismissing it outright by framing it as using a 1980s backdrop.

[24] OSGA has been historically linked with pan-German and Nazi linguists that were brought back to teach after World War II.

[26] As a reaction on Sedlaczek, the linguist Peter Wiesinger wrote a guest commentary in the same newspaper and argued that language nationalism doesn't evolve from scientific theory.