agitatedpotato,

In that case Canadian French should be it’s own language.

HikingVet,

Quebecquois is a horrible dialect that should be forcibly erased.

Imgonnatrythis,

Hey Germany, is that a bow tie or a bikini?

ShortN0te,

We do not do bikinis in Germany. FKK

drolex,

I think nowadays you could just swap Austria and Bavaria

GrievingWidow420,

You batter explain it, pal

Kerb, (edited )
@Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

idk about the england and dutch,
but the blue checkered flag is Bavaria.

Bavarians have a very awfull accent,
that is closer to austrian german than High German.

tourist,
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

Is the difference between the kinds of German obvious in text too? Or is it more like comparing American English to UK English

some_random_nick,

All official texts use standard German, but the differences appear in day-to-day communication. People usually write in their dialect and since there is no orthographic standard, it looks quite bizzare. If you know a little bit of German, take a look at Tapakapa Erklärt. An Austrian guy speaking and subtitling in his (Vienna?) dialect.

tourist,
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

Looked him up

I don’t know much German, but I definitely see what you mean.

Droggelbecher,

The grammar and pretty much all of the spelling is the same, but there are some words that are different, and some idioms and similar

some_random_nick,

Close enough. My original ideas was that Dutch is often taken as a joke language due to sounding like a cross-over between English and German. I just added Austria taking Bavaria with her because of the strong linguistic similarities. The inspiration for this meme was a comment on YT. A Dutch guy made a video in English with a strong accent. A German dude wrote “You should have made a video in German instead of in broken English.” The only reason we know the dude in the video was Dutch is because of some text in the background, but the accent sounded German.

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