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Witzbold's avatar

Very good, enjoyed this as an English-speaker working in south Germany. I still laugh thinking about a colleague who, after we had a falling out, wanted to formally rescind the familiar Du-zen we'd been operating on, and revert to Sie-zen!

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JustAnOgre's avatar

Haha. I live in Vienna and it is difficult to be rude in Hochdeutsch or Wienerisch. Specifically when people like a flock of grazing sheep block the way in the subway in the stupidest way possible, I want to say something like "get the fuck out of the way!" but as far as I can tell it does not exist. Eventually I borrowed a Vorarlberger expression: "Flü di!"

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