Wow, that's weirdly accurate
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 00:18:13 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ -
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lkngrrr (lkngrrr@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 00:26:33 JST lkngrrr @thomasfuchs AFAICT Austrian accents are heavily provincial, even more so than German accents. Apparently my great-grandmother’s accent was deeply Burgenlander.
I’m sad she didn’t teach us any Deutsch, but given what she and her kids must have gone through in the 30s/40s in the US I understand the desire for assimilation.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 00:32:42 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @polpo yeah, I’m just joking that it doesn’t know anything about immigrants :)
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Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙 (polpo@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 00:32:43 JST Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙 @thomasfuchs I did one of these dialect surveys for the US a while ago and it *nailed it* for me. Kinda spooky
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 00:33:44 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @lkngrrr I’ve relatives in the Burgenland and what they speak there barley qualifies as German 😂
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lkngrrr (lkngrrr@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 00:37:30 JST lkngrrr @thomasfuchs This may explains a lot about my last trip to Muenster and Aachen, where whenever someone spoke to me in Deutsch, my brain shorted and responded in American Spanish.
“Möchten Sie Wasser, Madam?”
“Sí, agua sin gas, por favor. Oh godammit. Entschuldigen. Sprechen Sie English?” -
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 00:55:03 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @lkngrrr My wife once ordered “ein mass” as a brainfart from Spanish “uno mas” and was confounded when they served her a whole liter of beer
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csolisr (csolisr@hub.azkware.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 01:42:11 JST csolisr @thomasfuchs @lkngrrr Heck, the differences between one region and another are so big in several cases, that many linguists prefer to talk about multiple Germanic languages posing in a trenchcoat to form "standard German". Viennese German is sometimes considered as a dialect of Bavarian, not of German, for this reason. bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weanari… -
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 02:14:30 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @madcodger Well the actual test is in the New York Times I think but I photoshopped Austria into it
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The Mad Codger (madcodger@easymode.im)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 02:14:36 JST The Mad Codger @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Where's this from?
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