RE: The last person to post wins !
November 13, 2014 at 3:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2014 at 3:02 pm by abaris.)
(November 13, 2014 at 2:50 pm)Beccs Wrote: I got to know a German guy who learned English in America.
He had the most interesting German/American accent when he spoke English.
Actually, German German and Austrian German are very different down to words not existing or having a different meanings. And German as well as Austrian German have many different dialects.
A simple humorous example: During the reign of the Shah of Persia, Austrian national television was forbidden to use his title in the second person, cause that would have been "Shah's" which sounds like the Austrian slang word "schas". That originally means "fart" but it's used as universally as "fuck" in America.
The Germans didn't have that problem.
Also a fun bit: The new comet they landed on got the European nickname "Tschuri". For Austrian ears that's good for a big and long needed laugh, since in Austrian slang "Tschuri" means "jizz". There even was an editorial about that in one of todays papers.