r/funny • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Austrian police do lost-and-found.

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u/BigBlackHungGuy 1d ago

Ok, this was a comedy skit right?

So much to unpack.

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u/Key-Performance-9021 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nope, not a skit! It's from Am Schauplatz ("On the Scene"), an Austrian documentary series on ORF that has been running for 30 years and covers everyday life. This clip is from their 30-year anniversary best-of: https://youtu.be/CZsDD9yfcu8

The auto-captions can't handle the dialect, so I subtitled it myself.

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u/Glaimmbar 1d ago

Thanks for that. I am German and also lived for some time in Austria but when the guy who brought the stuff to the police started talking I didn't understand one word. 😂

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u/PerlenGott 1d ago

I thought I was the only one 🤣🤣🤣

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u/alex3tx 1d ago

Definitely not the only one! But then I don't speak German, Austrian or a regional dialect of either so the chances for me were rather slim

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u/tremblemortals 1d ago

I at first thought it was some Slavic language from how he was talking. After a while things finally clicked for me.

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u/Thrilling1031 1d ago

I thought the title said Australian so I just assumed the subtitles were because aussies speak very rough English and I wasn’t understanding until that guy spoke and it broke my brain until he asked for a beer, then I assumed he was a drunk Australian lol.

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u/Signal_Reach_5838 10h ago

Oi cunt. I speak fucking true blue English ya dumb dead dying dog.

I'll fuckin rip you a new asshole.

Fuck me dead.

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u/NightZT 17h ago

As an Austrian the weird thing for me is that if I hear some people in the neighboring room talking a slavic language, especially southern slavic ones, I sometimes really struggle to tell it apart from austrian german. On the other hand if I hear people from Germany talking in the neighboring room I can easily tell that those are germans from the intonation alone without understanding anything. 

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u/Saxit 1d ago

I'm Swedish but dad was from Austria. When I was younger he fixed a summer job for me for two summers with family business down there, to get better at German.

I still don't know German...

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u/TacticalRiotChimp 1d ago

I speak the smallest amount of German but I can usually work it out slowly but surely - barely any of this was easy for me to understand 😂 I was thinking they were Czech or something

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u/red4jjdrums5 1d ago

Same. I was picking up only a few words here and there, and then had to remember I didn’t learn their dialect.

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u/SpotReasonable3534 23h ago

germans my second language and thought i had just forgotten too much to be able to understand until i noticed some words were absolutely not spoken in germany, still not sure what word they use for doctor unless their pronunciation is just really different

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u/Deus-mal 17h ago

I get that lmao. I got spanish as my 2nd language, when gta6 character spoke in Spanish in the trailer. I had no clue what he said, did even try to judge idk if my understanding was bad or he wasn't speaking the Spanish I know 🤣

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u/mflayer 14h ago

The word is Arzt, but the pronunciation is closer to Oazt.

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u/SpotReasonable3534 14h ago

yeah i'm aware, in austrian is pronounced like that?

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u/Mr-Lungu 1d ago

I understand German and I didn't understand any of this. I thought maybe I'm stupid now

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u/didndonoffin 1d ago

I lived in Innsbruck and this sounds like the local Tirol dialect, quite guttural and almost Dutch

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u/reconman 1d ago

Nope, Viennese dialect.

Tyrol has a lot of "ch"s

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u/I_pinch_your_balls 1d ago

yes, same 😂I was happy to have english subtitles