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My Austrian co-worker hates talking tech in German - it just doesn't roll of the tongue and he's more comfortable in English with that domain.
by AdamN 4y ago
My Austrian co-worker hates talking tech in German - it just doesn't roll of the tongue and he's more comfortable in English with that domain.
- boffinAudio 4y agoSame. I live in Vienna, and converse with my technical colleagues in English most of the time - although they do expect me to keep up with their crazy dialects over the coffee machine, an activity I find often quite fun, oida...
- rzzzt 4y agoIf you like comics, "Asterix speaks Viennese" might help: https://www.diepresse.com/5450586/asterix-auf-wienerisch-wappla-koffa-leachalschas https://www.diepresse.com/5450586/asterix-auf-wienerisch-wap...
- boffinAudio 3y agoThanks for that, its brilliant. Me and my kids salute you!
- CRConrad 3y agoI've seen Asterix in printed form in Schwäbisch, Swabian. Also in, uh, can't recall if it was Karjalaa or Savvoo, the Carelian or Savonian dialect of Finnish. Maybe both.