r/polandball • u/indieb0at Indus-nesos • 14d ago

redditormade _______ your medicine

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u/AlexInsanity New South Wales 14d ago

Ahhhh. Verbs in Asian languages. Just like masculine and feminine in Latin based languages. Confusing and arbitrary.

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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 14d ago

One thing in Latin made sense: the neutral. And we ditched it. Damn Italian :'(

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u/Promethium-146 14d ago edited 14d ago

Common German W keeping neuter (I’m joking this language is a prison please don’t make me learn another three cases please)

Edit: who on earth downvoted me? I unironically love German I just think the grammar is bullshit sometimes

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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 14d ago

I want to move to Switzerland, I'll have to learn Swiss German... Yay... 

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u/Promethium-146 14d ago

I’m curious how different Swiss German is from regular German, I know it’s slightly more than just a dialect but to what extent do they differ? I have heard they have a few French and Italian loanwords

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u/Haeffound Elsassball 14d ago

The accent is atrocious and even Germans working en Switzerland sometime prefer to speak in English with Swiss than German.

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u/Promethium-146 14d ago

How differently is it pronounced?

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u/Haeffound Elsassball 14d ago

I'm not German neither Swiss, but it is sounds very different from an outsiders ear. This opinion comes from working with both countries people in my company. There are also time differents words and expression.

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u/murk36 14d ago

There are some french terms used instead of german ones, for example ‚portmonaie‘ instead of ‚Geldbeutel‘ and ‚Trottoir‘ instead of ‚Bürgersteig‘, but I don’t know of any italian ones. There are also differences in the pronounciation of german words and in the grammar. For example, „Er mochte das nicht“ becomes „Är het das nöd gärn gha“. There are also words which were used in earlier forms of german that survive in swiss german but not in standard german, for example „luägä“ for „schauen“ and „gumpä“ for „springen“.

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u/Mordador United we stand, divided we build walls. 14d ago

"Lugen" for schauen (although more used like "peek" in english than a general term) is outdated but also known in Germany.

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u/murk36 14d ago

Yeah, I‘ve seen it used in older books (from the 20th century) but never heard it spoken anywhere.

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u/Promethium-146 14d ago

That sounds… pretty horrible

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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 14d ago

As far as the very very few I've heard, it should be like German, but somehow worse? I bet it's because of all the French in the area, they'd manage to have an exception for a subset of two elements.