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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
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.
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Regional slang can be pretty interesting in the States too. And then, you add in things like pronunciation and ... well .... I can barely understand some of the people around here.
Example: "birdy" = here in Texas, that means "verde" the Spanish word for green rather than an avian creature.