Sr. Taco said:
Wiener schnitzel. First thing that pops up, no idea why.
That's Austrian, although it was originally imported from Italy & rebranded
Guffe said:
OH OH!!! and The Police dog REX!
That's also Austrian, and should be made into a Wiener Schnitzel.
Guffe said:
The dog or the whole show?
But the language is german right?
The whole show. The language is technically german, although both germans and austrians would be offended at the suggestion that we're speaking the same language. We're frennemies separated by a common language ^_^
The german bavarian dialect is very close to the austrian salzburgian & some upper-austrian ones; further south in the alps no one can understand you as soon as you move one valley over (and i think they skipped a soundshift a ouple of hundred years ago, which makes some words sound a bit english). Towards the east, the language gets sloppy articulation, drawn out vowels, as well as a distinct mordibity inherent to most Viennese dialects.
There's a lot of fun to be head playing around with the languages, or comparing different dialects & colloquialisms.
The easiest way to tell germans & austrians apart is to toss a football (soccer ball for you 'merkins) in front of them. If they have any idea whatsoever what to do with it, they're german.
(don't worry though, us Austrians are used to being accidentially co-opted as part time germans - truth be told, i have a hard time making the differenc between checks and slovaks, and i live next to them
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Eclectic Dreck said:
China.
No, not the nation - plates and such.
They have brilliant china manufacturers, Meissner near Dresden for example. Some of their turn of the century (19th/20th ofc ^^) is simply stunning
[The said:
Rock]Hitler was AUSTRIAN and his name was Houtler but he changed it to sound more german.
It's not so much that he changed his name, as that there was no single one correct way to write it. Hitler, Hüttler, Huettler would all have been correct - comes from the word "Hütte" (a hut), and indicates someone who lives in a hut (which is what inns are colloquially known as in the area); however while in standard german there's an "ü" sound*, that gets ground into an 'i' sound in Upper Austria/Salzburg and some parts of Bavaria ("Hütte" becomes "Hittn"), thus ending up with the name Hitler.
All that said, we ain't in any form responsible for the Hasslehoff disaster - that's ALL on the germans
*) In case you didn't know, for the "ü" sound, as opposed to the "u" sound in german, head to google translate, set it to german -> english, and copypasta all those weird umlaut sounds, and have google speak them
For your perusal: ä ö ü
