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You’ve been watching too many WW2 films.
by robin_reala 1y ago
You’ve been watching too many WW2 films.
- coldtea 1y agoI've been having actual WW2 Nazis occupy my country and kill family back in the day. Not everybody gets their history from movies. But I'm talking about their regular everyday speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghRKZRcxeI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghRKZRcxeI4
- dpassens 1y agoYou... you don't actually think we talk like that, do you?
- coldtea 1y agoI don't have to think how Germans speak there's no shortage of Germans passing around these parts. That's how it sounds in everyone's ears, in countries with more melodic languages like Spanish or French. (It's not even the pronunciation overplayed in the video for comedic effect, many words are already threatening sounding by themselves, just the letters on page invoke either threat or bureaucracy).
- stavros 1y agoI've had Germans kill family too, but the video above is a non-native German speaker making fun of German words. I agree that German isn't the most pleasant language to hear spoken, but that video isn't evidence.
- coldtea 1y agoNo, but it's a funny reminder of how it's perceived. It's not supposed to be evidence, nor I linked it as if it was some scientific proof settling the matter. Basically captures that part you said "I agree that German isn't the most pleasant language".
- stavros 1y agoFor me, Dutch is even worse. Turkish I also dislike, for some reason, I think because of the throaty "l" sounds. Sorry, Dutch and Turkish friends.