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Old 05-10-2008, 02:10 PM   #87
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel View Post
heh... and here i thought it was at least a compound of legitimate words... my friend is from Dresden, what region are you from ? if Germany is anything like france, regional slang can be so different from one place to another as to be virtually incomprehensible. and i'm not even talking about dialects... 50 years ago, a grandpa from one village wouldn't understand a grandpa from the next village over.
I'm from Schleswig-Holstein near the Danish border. Since last year I'm studying in Marburg, Hessen and I've only noticed some small regional differences with the people I've met here – and they are from all around Germany.
We use some slang words in Schleswig-Holstein though that are not well known in the rest of Germany (like "schnacken" and "moin").

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