I do this so much at work with random german words, because we have so many specific names for our features, some of which I didn't even know in german before working here. Others I'd know how to translate but it would be ambiguous. And our non-german speaking devs also use the software in german, so they understand.
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I went to college in Alabama (southern USA) and my very country barber was mostly unintelligible but one day, mid-sentence, the words "statutory rape" very articulately came out of his mouth and I still wonder what the fuck that was all about.
my barber (closet Reform, but never says it because he knows he'd lose customers):
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"these left-wing protesters, very hateful people aren't they?"
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"doesn't the earths temperature fluctuate anyway?"
(I've mentioned to him what the protests are about, and that we have ice record data showing unprecedented CO2+methane along with said fluctuations. He's either partially or willfully deaf.)
Barber talking about politics jfc. That's why when I still went to a barber I just kept to my Donald Duck comics
Kinda part of the problem in a way, the right has zero qualms spewing their shit at all times regardless of context but the left tends to keep quiet
I do it too so I'm not trying to accuse you specifically or anything, just an observation
Talking about local republicans?
Just regular barber discourse
When I was a child my mother worked at night to deliver newspapers. A lot of her colleagues were Turkish and German was only spoken when it was relevant for all or explicitly for my mother and step father.
I could often hear conversations held in Turkish interrupted with German words like "Steuererklärung" (tax declaration) or "Finanzamt" (German tax authority) but my personal highlight was when a Turkish outburst was followed by a "Du Schofseckl" which is a very local way to call someone names.
Just imagine someone talking to you in a foreign language and ends with a term your grandfather used to berate stupid neighbors.
Schofseckl is such a heavy dialect insult that my norther ass had to reread that word a couple of times to find out what it meant. Guess they integrated well, much better than I would because I'd refuse to on principle.
That's fair, I learned to speak a more understandable version as I grew older. One of my half brothers and his father have a very heavy dialect. To the amusement of my sisters and me.
Their dialect is so strong that when the car broke down while on their way to family in Hessen, my step father couldn't properly communicate with the mechanic. We still quote parts of the conversation. It was glorious.
Other than that I love Swabian life lessons like " 's läbe isch koin Schlotzer" or small odes to their treckers like "Isch d' Berg au no so schteil, mein Fendt der schafft des alleweil!".
But I also prefer the way you people in the North talk. At least listening :D
My grandfathers spoke Platt with each other, very different versions, yet they understood eachother. My mother's father I could understand as well, not my father's though, he spoke a very dutch Platt.
I sadly don't speak it even though my mother told both of them to teach me and my brother
My ex lived in Lörrach and I simply could not understand her familys dialect for years. We then went to visit her cousins in Frankfurt, and whaddayaknow, perfectly understand everything around me
Frankfurt, and whaddayaknow, perfectly understand everything around me
Until someone starts a lengthy talk about Ebbelwoi
If I’m parsing that correctly, it means “you sheep’s bag”, referring to its scrotum. 😀
The "Schof" is not drived from the German "Schaf" but from Yiddish. The older generations used it to describe someone who's a useless idiot. E.g. when. someone fucks up something easy and obvious
But Yiddish is itself a Germanic language, and modern German dialects like Bavarian do have "Schof" = "Schaf" = "sheep". Is there a better etymology for Schof here? And Seckl < Säckle < Sack would be perfect for scrotum too, and in high German you can call someone "du Sack" to mean they're an idiot also.
I looked it up again:
It's derived from the Yiddish word "Schofel" which itself is already an insult and closer to the German word "Lump" and the English "rascal"(?).
If you want a literal translation for Schofseckl I'd go for "sack full of useless rags".
And Seckl < Säckle < Sack would be perfect for scrotum too
No, the meaning of "Sack" alone, without context is that of a soft, loosely shaped container. If "Sack" is used as a short version for "Hodensack" then yes, it can be used as an insult but that's not the case here.
"Seckl" is more similar to the Bavarian/Austrian "Sackl" or "Packl" it's just a bag.
Austrians say "Sackerl". And they will always giggle if you say "Tüte" instead. From my experience 😂
I had Mexican flatmates/neighbours during my master's abroad, and it was always funny to me how they casually insert English words while speaking, with a perfect American accent whilist talking Spanish
As an Italian I might do that too, but the accent is nowhere near, we just need the word in English but pronunciation can be whatever
It's such an immigrant thing to do. At this point my conversations with my partner almost always have English and German mixed in. But even back in my country, I'd use a lot of English because I couldn't remember the word in my language or it was simply easier to do so in English, lol.
I speak a lot of English and do so with a Swedish accent. Since we're trained on British English in school and mostly exposed to American English otherwise, it tends to be a mashed up version of English too.
I am totally unable to drop a single word in a different language in the middle of a sentence. Switching language? Sure! One word in? It’s unintelligible
I come from a Germanic colony in Brazil, and while the language has been mostly genocided out, people still sometimes drop random German words in the middle of Portuguese, or mix Portuguese words with some German grammar.
My mother when younger visited Germany and got confused looks from the family hosting her by asking where was the "lixolatte" ("lata de lixo" is the Portuguese for garbage can)
Right the Germans in south america, guess your family moved there in the middle of the forties, somewhere around May of 1945?
My city was founded in 1850, before Germany was even a single country.
While I don't know when exactly my family came here I know it was way before WW2.
It was just a joke, especially Brazil has quite a large German minority from the 18th century AFAIK.