I like big cities, so I am all good, lol.

It's a good speaking exercise, for voice actors for example. :)

Yup, that one is easy. A better one is "Zwanzig Zwerge zeigen Handstand, zehn im Wandschrank, zehn am Sandstrand". Even I have problems saying that over and over again. :D

Good thing that German pronounciation is pretty straightforward most of the time. XD

Nice. "Färskfiskfiskare" means "fresh fish fisher"? And, in Swedish "r+s" isn't pronounced as "sh" like in Norwegian, right?

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In German every proper noun is capitalized. Yes, we are weird. "Fischer" can be a name, or it can be a profession. But since it's "Fischers" at the begining it implies possession, so either the guy who is a fisherman possesses something or the guy who is called "Fischer" does. Impossible to tell. If the guy "Fritz" was a fisherman, then it would be "Fischer Fritz", without the "s". I'm sure such a variation exists, too.

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Did you happen to grow up in one? I do wonder sometimes how so many people can have such an affinity for such an artificial style of life. :) Makes sense if it's all based on familiarity though. Or maybe if you're just extroverted enough to want to always be around people.

Right. :) Was thinking potential correlations between wedding dresses and red cabbage over there?

One of those that seem deceptively simple the first time hmm... nice.

That is a good thing yeah! Not so simple for an outsider but very similar annunciation/grammar otherwise. or at least the grammar seems similar when you read these bits.

Yupp. As for the second question though it is pronounced that way in Swedish too. Trying to think if it might be different in certain words but it seems like this is the norm... interesting. Never realized we have some silent r's too.

Seems the r in rs might not be silent with say Finnish or Icelandic, maybe some hybrid dialects exist here too where the sh doesn't apply.

Oh, interesting. Does this impact how you title things over there overall - products, media, etc? Does the rule of proper nouns being capitalized take precedence over other capitalization trends? Still common with all words capitalized in titles?

A possessed fisherman huh. :) Good to know.

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I grew up near Hamburg, yes. And I think it's nicer in big cities for introverts like myself. No one cares about what you do, as long as you are not misbehaving in an outrageous way. In small villages everyone knows everyone else, so fuck up once and the whole village will know in an instant, heh.

But I think being used to larger cities does have it's advantages. When I traveled to Glasgow for example, I felt pretty comfortable running around in the city centre. I didn't feel overwhelmed like maybe people that are used to small places might feel like.

I see. No, it's just the different position of "l" and "r" in those words. "Brautkleid" is 'r ... l', while "Blaukraut" is "l ... r'. Other than that they are of very similar structure, both start with a b, have three same amount of syllables and both end with a sharp "t" sound (yes, a 'd' at the end of a word is spoken like a 't').

Oh, that's good to know. I learned that in Norwegian it depends on how you pronounce the "r", if you speak a "rulle-r" (don't know if that term exists in Swedish too... It's a rolling r, just like an angry Scotsman would use lol), then r+s = sh (even across words, which is really unusual for me, "vær så" is pronounced "væshå"). If your 'r' is a 'skarre-r' (at the back of your mouth, like the French do), then r+s are pronounced separately.

I haven't really been paying attention to that, but I think capitalization rules apply to titles as well. Apart from the yellow press of course, they just write their headlines in all caps.

Hmm personally I feel like you're much more anonymous in the middle of nowhere. :) You can scream, you can shout at the top of your lungs, you can run around half-naked even when you're not in optimal beach shape... so much more freedom to be yourself and be anonymous I guess. You're right the middle ground small town gets much more personal on another level.

Definitely. It's not only the people I'm adverse to though, I can enjoy the anonymity you mention above, but the sense that you don't really have control. You're forced to act according to the set of rules that govern the city. Everything costs. Everything's regulated. I feel caged whenever I'm in places populated to the point they require some sort of order to stay pleasant for all.

Not that I do go around screaming all the time when I'm in the wild, it's just that it's possible. Anything's possible. You're not trapped either behaviorally or geographically the same way. There's fresh water to drink if you know where to look. There's plenty of food too if it's the right season. Nature provides, and people take. Too much city = too many people = too much taken away.

Ah right. Makes sense similar words would be used like this, just seemed maybe there was some backstory too. :)

Rolling r yes (ruller = rullar in Swedish btw). Your example above's the same in Swedish. If you want to be very articulate you can pronounce the r in the example above too though, when the words aren't connected, but I don't believe it's that common. You could say it's the older/more formal form of annunciation. Alternatively if you're trying to sound aggressive/tough. Possible it's also dialectal...

I don't think I've ever thought this much about how and when different r accentuation occur in our language. XD

No back of the mouth r's here. :) It's all tip of the tongue r's, both rolling and no. In 'rullar' for example, if you're somewhat articulate the first r will be a rolling r, and the last one will be more like the r in a short dog bark (the actual sound, can't think of a way to write it so it comes across the same, hopefully you hear the same sound in your head). The softness/amount of roll in the r depends on how articulate you are, how much emphasis you put in the word, and which part of the country you live in.

Up North the r's roll stronger and slower, down South actually maybe we actually do have those French r's after all... it's not a dialect I'm too fond of though. :P Skånska or småländska.

Good to know.

Many thanks! Admittedly I like to see it as an early 30th birthday present, although it's nothing compared to what I'll actually get IRL for my 30th. New hifi to play CDs and vinyls and I now have a vinyl collecting addiction.

Aye, always the way with EXP. I say it's somewhat reachable looking ahead now but it's gonna take some time and a few more above me to drop off.

Many thanks! Be back for.... 59k in August.

Just seen this. I was actually in Hamburg last year for my dad's 60th. Dunno about you but I didn't quite see many stein glasses about.

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I can relate to that.

NOW you are telling me?! Where did your dad celebrate?

And to see stein glasses you'd have to travel further south. Bavaria should have plenty.

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Depending on which city you live in, you could get away with all of that. ;P

Too late. Now I imagine you running around screaming whenever I see one of your posts. ;)

That's definitely true. But on the other hand, you have much more job opportunities. I really can't understand people who drive 2 hours, only to get to work (and then 2 hours back, of course).

At least I am not aware of any, and a quick google search didn't turn up anything useful. But I guess I will see a lot of ads for wedding dresses now.

It's funny how little we think about our native languages. I've discovered many new things about German during the past 1 1/2 years I am learning Norwegian now. I think I've mentioned it before, but it's so obvious that our languages are closely related, we even use the same figurative language on many occasions. For example how you can use "å dra" to indicate movement, we use "gehen" (to go) for the same thing, or how "å tilhøre" is used to indicate belonging, we use "gehören", and as you can propably see, "å høre" and "hören" (=to hear) is present in both these words. Fascinating!

The same over here. If an "r" is at the end of the word as in "Wasser" (water) we more or less swallow it, and the word becomes "ˈvasɐ" in the phonetic alphabet.

Haha. I actually forgot which part of Germany you lived in. The thought didn't occur to me at the time but around that then lot of personal shit was going on.

We explored many places, although many names escape me now. However, thanks to Google Maps I did manage to find the name of the two rock bars we went into for most nights. They were Zwick St. Pauli and Grotte if you recognise either of them. We also went to Lehmitz a few times for live music.

Additionally we explored the areas where The Beatles statues are (even though we live near the city they originated from and see plentiful of them).

Well that explains it. There I was expecting to find stein glasses in any place like finding Guinness in any Dublin bar. Come next visit to Germany I'd like to go where I can find them steins.

Not the bars I frequented when I went to the Kiez (which wasn't all that often, tbh)

Spielbudenplatz?

Yes, living near Liverpool you must see a lot of Beatles statues.

Munich is really a beautiful city. And you don't even need to visit the Oktoberfest to get a Maß Bier.

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Well that's a few more vinyls picked up. Thought after a week in work where things were going tits up I'd treat myself. It's a self-torment to get them when I can't even play them yet. However, my wait won't be for too much longer.

Additionally, I did venture out to the pubs yesterday upon their reopening and thankfully where I went weren't rammed. If anything, the pubs I went to were actually safer than going to the supermarkets. Much better management with social distancing measures. Safe to say my first pint of Guinness was amazing.

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I wouldn't say loads of statues but there's definitely them around. This isn't me complaining, of course because I appreciate the band enough for what they've brought to the city. Liverpool would be entirely different if they never existed.

Glad to hear it's doable outside Oktoberfest which I can imagine it to be very busy and expensive.

You're not wrong there. I am indeed in the middle of a tie at the moment but figured to post about reaching it when I realised. Should be more secure soon enough, I hope.

Many thanks. It only gets tougher from hereon to move up the ranks, particularly when there's only 39 other users above me and nearly all of them are still active.

Those two have been like a yo-yo for a while now.

I have the "In Rock", too. Very nice!

Music would be very differently as well, I think.

Never been there, but from what I read about it beer prices have gone up quite a lot over the past few years.

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I wasn't being sarcastic

It's a fantastic album for sure. It can be hard to choose between it and Machine Head but from what I found at the record shop, In Rock it was.

At this time I'm trying to vary the vinyls I'm getting so no getting all Maiden albums right away on it. Might sound strange but I'm thinking next an album from RHCP to get on vinyl. Got a bit nostalgic over them the other night so it's stuck now.

Sure would be. Although, you know which English city I'm jealous that they have? Birmingham. They have Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.

Going to my London trips twice a year (well, outside any pandemics, of course) is already expensive enough. I've spent over £7 just for a single pint at some places and I dread to think of London prices next time I'm down there.

A nice find for sure. Fireball and Live in Japan are albums to look out for as well. Especially the live version of Space Truckin' is a real treat, with over 19 minutes of runtime.

I haven't bought any new music albums lately. For the time being my focus shifted towards movies. But it will shift back again to music, I am sure about that.

Hamburg at least has Helloween.

A pint is a little more than 0.5 litres, right? A Maß is 1 litre and in 2019 the price was around 11€ on the Oktoberfest.

So, prices in London are even more expensive. 😲

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Now those two already have on CD are amazing but saying that, there's still plenty of their albums that I don't have in that format. I think I've neglected them for a few years so there's much to return to and to even discover.

I go through phases. Hell, I wasn't even music collecting all that much in the mid-10s. I'm glad I got around to bringing my CD collection over to my flat. That's what kickstarted the collecting again and not just listening to everything on Spotify/YouTube.

Shit, almost forgot there. Yep, Hamburg has them all beat. 😂

11€ is near enough £11. That much is more than the steins I've had locally (they've been between £6-8) but of course that's comparing local bars to Oktoberfest.

If we're talking about how expensive drinks can get at places, according to my boss he once paid 21€ for a pint of Peroni in Venice. 😳

I've discovered so much over Deezer, if I'd buy all those on CD or LP, I'd need an extra storage room.

Same, that's why I know my focus will shift back to music at some point. As written above, currently I listen to stuff on Deezer and got into Truckfighters, Electric Wizard, My Sleeping Karma, Burning Saviors, Earthless, Somali Yacht Club...

What about Krefeld, tough? Blind Guardian... And let's not forget Essen and Kreator.

Hm, hopefully I will go back to Norway in a few months. I think there your can easily pay 20€ and more for a drink. 🤐

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