hello!!! sorry if this is a personal ask, but i was wondering if you would be interested in talking about some of your region's language and dialect? its difficult to find information on specific demographics and how their dialects relate to the language overall, and im also in a lot of trouble with the german teacher crime syndicate and if i remain unable to roll an r they might get me - anon
Not personal at all! I'd love to talk about my dialect and I'm holding back from writing a whole essay about it rn :'D
If your German teachers make you roll your r they're either trying to make you sound Southern* or they're not even trying to teach you the uvular r. Neither one of these options is ethical. Standard German (TM) doesn't include rolled r sounds, the uvular r is way more common! I hear it's hard for Anglos to do, but just think of the k and g sounds - they get your tongue in the right position for that guttural non-rolled r :) (check this video, it explains pretty well)
I'm a Saxon speaker. This dialect has the same unfortunate connotations as deep Southern or Midwestern US accents; uneducated, bigoted, small-minded and all that, and it's considered unprofessional to speak it on the job (top 10 things that make me yearn for violence btw).
Anyway. Saxon my beloved!! It's very laid-back and fun. Whimsical, even. Your tongue kinda just stays at the back of your mouth, pronunciation is incredibly lazy, soften all the consonants. Since it's a Middle German dialect and not a High German one, some words are closer to English, too! Apfel becomes Appel, for example.
Saxon is also universally used when ppl satirize/mock East Germany or the entire region ig even though the dialects here are super diverse, too. And I'm not even from the state of Saxony but whoever drew the new state lines after the reunification had to have been WASTED cause wtf is Sachsen-Anhalt?? Whenever I open my mouth ppl just clock me as Saxon or maybe Thuringian but NEVER as Anhaltian.
Hope this helps, feel free to ask more! Good luck with your teachers 💥💥
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& i seriously feel like 60% of dumb takes that abt amc louis’s social position would be solved if ppl simply read john w blassingame’s amazing research on black new orleans from 1860-1880. just one nonfiction. 20% of my reading is fiction, 80% is legit nonfiction be it for my field or bc im sick+ think history is a hobby.
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one of my neighbours just said "servus" as way of greeting me while we passed in the hallway.
we're in hesse.
i'm from lower saxony.
my mother's said of the family aka the only one that matters is from east germany.
you cannot IMAGINE the utter culture shock i just experienced.
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Positano in the Sun - Walter Ophey , 1910.
German, 1882-1930
Oil on canvas, 75 x 75 cm.
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