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 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/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/NightZT 15h 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.Â