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paddystar

The meme that is going around.

Jan 31, 2006 19:26

Nicked from michablack:

LJ is a pretty diverse place. We might know where people on our f-list are from, but how much do we all know about those places? No matter whether you're on the other side of the globe to me, or just up the road, this is for you ( Read more... )

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mauvaise_etoile January 31 2006, 18:31:47 UTC

Is your life just like The Sound of Music?

*snort* Kidding!

Being that you're fairly close to the German and Czech borders, are there a lot of immigrants in your town? And if so, what have they brought to the area that is different than other parts of Austria?

paddystar January 31 2006, 20:59:38 UTC

Yeah, my life is *just* like Sound of Music. I do like running around in the hills singing... *snort*

To answer your other question, no there aren't really any immigrants. Not from Germany or the Czech republic, at least. Though there are some from Romania/Bulgaria/Albania etc. who live in my immediate neighbourhood. But they didn't really bring anything different that I can think of... We're still very traditional and conserverative *retches* here in the country. :)

mauvaise_etoile January 31 2006, 21:10:49 UTC

So you don't go round singing: 'Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens.'??? *shocked*

Oh god. I am just digging a deeper grave here. You probably get so sick of people making SoM references all the time! *ashamed*

That's interesting that you are so close to the borders but don't have many immigrants (from those countries, at least).

*sings* 'So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu. Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu.'

michablack January 31 2006, 21:15:25 UTC

*Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiies*

One of my friends was singing that today.

And I'd like to apologise about my frequent references to the Moulin Rouge-ish of SoM, at least until you've seen it, Paddy.

/interrupting

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paddystar January 31 2006, 21:01:56 UTC

The next big city in Austria is Linz, which you might have heard of. It's about 45 mins away and it's where we usually go for shopping. The next big city in Germany is Passau, which is about an hour away. I dunno about Czech towns though...

michablack January 31 2006, 19:15:12 UTC

Hmmmm.... I should ask something too... Erhm. Argh, I don't know... Jees, I really should be able to think of a question! Goddammit... Okay, that's it, I give up and wil return once I get my mind to function...

paddystar January 31 2006, 21:08:56 UTC

Awwww, heeh... *waits for Micha's mind to start functioning again* :p

michablack January 31 2006, 21:16:32 UTC

...*waits too*...

michablack February 1 2006, 13:54:22 UTC

Since my mind is on permanent strike, I'll ask this: what does your house look like? Since you're always saying that the Danish red brick houses are nice, lol...

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gonewithoutjam January 31 2006, 20:02:34 UTC

If you had to pick one place in the town, any place (building, street, park, tree, whatever) that was special to you for some reason, what would it be and why?

paddystar February 1 2006, 21:42:53 UTC

Hmmm... That's a difficult one...

Behind my house, there's a hill, which we call 'The Mountain' literally translated. There's a small forest on it, which is called 'The Mountain Forest', and a church on top of it. It's a rather small hill, so the name is pretty funny, now that I think about it... But anyway, I love that place. I used to go there very often when I was a child, and I still go there when I'm feeling down or something. It always helps me clear my head. It's rather idyllic up there, and very quiet. I dunno if that counts as a place in my town though...

bluebirdtexas February 1 2006, 10:47:35 UTC

How different is Austrian Germany from German Germany? I mean, there's gotta be at least some minor differences. In pronounciation, vocabulary, perhaps even grammar... More variation than between US and UK English?

paddystar February 1 2006, 22:19:10 UTC

Looool. Well, if you're talking Austrian dialect, than it's totally different. You wouldn't understand it even if you learned German... Not even German people understand it, most of the time, I think. We shorten most words, and we randomly change vowels, and so on. It's only a spoken 'language' though. We only really write in dialect in informal situations, such as e-mails to friends, text messages, on MSN etc. So, I'd say Austrian German and German German are a lot more different than US and UK English. :p

There are also a lot of expressions in standard Austrian German that are different to German German, those are about as many as in US/UK English, I'd say. And the pronuncation is different, too... It's rather weird talking to someone from Germany, though that's mostly because you have to talk standard German for them to understand you, and we *never* talk in standard German, not even in school.

As for grammar differences, there are some apparently, as proven when I and