Hive: Musings about Crothian

[Terath Ninir]

Bavawho?.... Oh yeah, those guys.

Ah, Bavarians. In college, I hung out for a time with a bunch of Bavarian physics grad students. I figured Germans = good taste in beer. Right? HELLS no. Those punks drink anything with alcohol in it. Even Keystone Light. Blarph!!!!! I was quite disillusioned.

They also had this one dark-haired Fabio look-alike with them from Ulm. They claimed that Ulm had its own dialect of German that even they didn't understand. I still don't know if they were pulling my leg on that or not. Not like I could confirm it; he was never even close to sober any time I met him. Even on campus.

 

[Knight Otu]

They claimed that Ulm had its own dialect of German that even they didn't understand.

Quite possible, there's a lot of dialects around here, and some are impossible to understand.
Random sidenote on dialects: There have actually been comic books (Asterix being the main one) translated into several german dialects. :evil:

 

[Jdvn1]

Pfft, you think German dialects are hard to understand? The English spoken in Boston and the English spoken in New Orleans is more different than some languages.

 

[Crothian]

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And the german dialects are worse then the english dialects. the german ones are basically new languages unlike the english ones.

 

[Darkness]

Pfft, you think German dialects are hard to understand? The English spoken in Boston and the English spoken in New Orleans is more different than some languages.

That's nothing. If you knew German and heard the Swiss speak their dialect of it, you'd long for the sweet release of death.

 

[Knight Otu]

Pfft, you think German dialects are hard to understand?

No, I don't think so.





I know it.

 

[Darkness]

Quite possible, there's a lot of dialects around here, and some are impossible to understand.

In Ulm und um Ulm und um Ulm herum?

 

[Crothian]

That's nothing. If you knew German and heard the Swiss speak their dialect of it, you'd want to die as quickly as possible.

there's a joke there about how odd it is that it is the swiss making the germans die.....but that might be a little political for the boards so I'm not saying it....

 

[Terath Ninir]

Quite possible, there's a lot of dialects around here, and some are impossible to understand.
Random sidenote on dialects: There have actually been comic books (Asterix being the main one) translated into several german dialects. :evil:

Huh. I kind of figured that, seeing as I was a history major in college. But I've never *been* there, so I've mostly been taking other people's word on it.

As for differences in English dialects: never met one I could understand if the person was at all cohorent. Which excludes about 50% of humanity, I'll grant you. From all accounts we have *less* variation than most languages...

 

[Knight Otu]

I just got a lot cooler, I just got a lot cooler......finally the postcount pays off!!

It does?

You don't mean the monkeys, do you?