<object width="425" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tr7zhnctF4c&border=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tr7zhnctF4c&border=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="349"></embed></object> Dazzling...
it's very possible there is a different terminology for that concept in austria vs. germany. i don't think that was so bad.
it's like saying someone speaks "Swiss." apparently, there are some gaps in that ivy league education.
"The Österreichisches Wörterbuch (Austrian dictionary, abbreviated ÖWB) is the official dictionary of the German language in Austria"
yeah, i get it. what i'm saying is that it would've been 100% okay to say he didn't know the term in austria. this is what he seemed to mean.
"This Austrian counterpart to the German Duden contains a lot of terms that are unique to the Austrian German or that are more frequently used or differently pronounced there."
Austrian German does not equal Austrian, any more than swiss deutsch equals Swiss. to someone even moderately educated about the region, it's embarrassing. Do they speak Canadian in Canada, or Mexican in Mexico?
"However a considerably amount of this "Austrian" vocabulary is also common in souther parts of Germany, especially Bavaria." I guess that means you lost at copy/pasta.
Don't worry basso, if it was Bush instead everyone would call him stupid without coming to a logical conclusion.
You mean like "Swiss German"? http://www.eldrid.ch/swgerman.htm My sister in law speaks swiss-german and there is a difference. Did you learn that they speak German in Switzerland? That's a common misconception! In Switzerland they speak Swiss German, and that's something completely different. Swiss German has its own pronunciation, many different words, its own grammar, and most Germans have difficulty understanding this funny language. The German-speaking Swiss write standard German, that's true - there is no Swiss German official language (but still some literature, e-mails etc. using the dialect). The Swiss can also speak standard German very well, but to them it's a foreign language that they have to learn how to use when they start school.
they also speak French and Italian, depending on which part of Switzerland they're from. in no case do they speak "Swiss."
Wrong again. When traveling, when my sister-in-law meets other Europeans they ask, do you speak Swiss? (they say "SWEESE" actually)
