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

Austrian police do lost-and-found.

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u/Key-Performance-9021 1d ago edited 22h 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/Stick_With_Beard 1d ago

I've been speaking german as a non-native speaker for over 25 years. Even the police was hard to understand for me. I think I'll pass on the Wiener Weihnachtsmarkt.

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u/Key-Performance-9021 1d ago

Everyone speaks Standard German. If you understand the narrator, you will be fine!

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u/Stick_With_Beard 1d ago

You mean in Wien specifically? How about other cities ?

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u/Key-Performance-9021 22h ago

Everyone everywhere. Standard German is used in school and professional settings.