Tag: dialect
Scratcher’s vocabulary: A dog for Heidi Klum – Bavaria
The fine country castle Gödöllö rises near Budapest. When you enter the former chambers of Empress Sisi, your gaze inevitably falls on the purple wallpaper on the walls, the color…
Comedian Aurel Mertz in an interview: “Dialects are not sexy at all” – media
Aurel Mertz lives in Berlin, comes from Stuttgart – and loves the language there. The comedian about Swabian humor, pretzels and his new late night show. Swabia and Berlin are…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Ihra be Bua – Bavaria
The gender debate has the potential to get on your nerves. Otherwise you don’t have to worry. At least in this context it comes to mind that the gender assignment…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Mistaken Winnetou films
In the cheap Westerns from the 1960s, the plots of the Karl May novels were often completely changed and messed up. In Bavarian there is a special word for this…
Derblecken – where does the Bavarian verb actually come from? – Munich
There are very special Bavarian terms that are only known to the rest of the republic on very specifically Bavarian occasions. Derblecken is one of those things. The word is…
Bavarian: This is how well two people from Munich know their way around – Bavaria
Sabrina Biechele from Putzbrunn and Harald Schertele from Aying did particularly well in the Home Ministry’s dialect quiz. Both of them benefited from the fact that they traveled around Bavaria…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Ilse Bilse, nobody wants… – Bavaria
Trenzerbeidl An older gentleman recently said in a pub that he had picked up his grandson from daycare. Another boy was crying miserably there, which is why he affectionately called…
International Mother Language Day: China’s dialects are disappearing
As of: February 21, 2024 4:14 p.m There are 300 languages and dialects in China, but many are threatened with extinction – also because the government wants everyone to speak…
So don’t talk like that! – Bavaria
The history of fan heaters is currently being examined in the Air Museum in Amberg. A reader wrote that he missed the Bavarian term of endearment for the fan heater,…
Nuremberg: Sparkasse responds to criticism of voice computer Anna – Bavaria
The word of the year 2023 was: crisis mode. On the one hand, this was due to the fact that there have been a lot of crises recently: the corona…