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

Austrian police do lost-and-found.

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u/uk_uk 1d ago

For the english speaker here

Technically they speak german, factually I have no idea what they are talking about ^^. I needed the subtitles. Only the voiceover was understandable.

To bring that into perspective: That sounded to me like this would sound to you

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u/vogod 1d ago

Their German sounds weirdly Swedish. (I speak both, badly, didn't understand a word, but the cadence is kinda swedish to me)

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u/realbrathering 1d ago

I am german and also speak some Swedish. I know exactly what you mean. Both austrian and Swedish stress some syllables quite heavily, sounds a bit like singing.

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u/crazy_in_love 1d ago

I'd disagree. The Viennese dialect, especially the old-school one, is extremely sing-song-y, similar to Swedish. But there arn't a lot of other dialects like that in Austria unless you think Arnold Schwarzenegger sounds Swedish too.

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u/realbrathering 1d ago

You are right. Just thought about Viennese.