English Proficiency Index: Danes are the best non-native English-speakers

[Tender Branson]

"Aufzug" is the word I'd use.

Yes, because you are from Hessen and speak "High-German".

But we Austrians always shiver when we hear Germans use "kucken" instead of "schauen", "Quark" instead of "Topfen", "Tüte" instead of "Sackerl", "eine Eins im Zeugnis bekommen" instead of "einen Einser im Zeugnis bekommen", "Laken" instead of "Leintuch" or when you guys pronounce "China" as "Schiiina" instead of "Kina" or "Chemie" as "Schemie" instead of "Keemie".

And a 1000 other words that I currently don't remember ...

[Franzl]

"Aufzug" is the word I'd use.

Yes, because you are from Hessen and speak "High-German".

But we Austrians always shiver when we hear Germans use "kucken" instead of "schauen", "Quark" instead of "Topfen", "Tüte" instead of "Sackerl", "eine Eins im Zeugnis bekommen" instead of "einen Einser im Zeugnis bekommen", "Laken" instead of "Leintuch" or when you guys pronounce "China" as "Schiiina" instead of "Kina" or "Chemie" as "Schemie" instead of "Keemie".

And a 1000 other words that I currently don't remember ...

I'm guilty of each and every one of those

[Beezer]

Austrian "das wird sich ausgehen" is rather similar to "it's going to work out." We don't use that in Standard German though. Is there some ancient Austro-Anglo link?

[Tender Branson]

Austrian "das wird sich ausgehen" is rather similar to "it's going to work out." We don't use that in Standard German though. Is there some ancient Austro-Anglo link?

What do you guys use again for "das wird sich ausgehen" ?

Don't know about the ancient Austro-Anglo link. Maybe it has to do with the Germanic/Celtic population movements, or it's just a dialect thing.

[Franzl]

Austrian "das wird sich ausgehen" is rather similar to "it's going to work out." We don't use that in Standard German though. Is there some ancient Austro-Anglo link?

What do you guys use again for "das wird sich ausgehen" ?

Don't know about the ancient Austro-Anglo link. Maybe it has to do with the Germanic/Celtic population movements, or it's just a dialect thing.

Das klappt/passt/geht/funktioniert schon, I think. I've never heard the Austrian version before.

[Tender Branson]

Austrian "das wird sich ausgehen" is rather similar to "it's going to work out." We don't use that in Standard German though. Is there some ancient Austro-Anglo link?

What do you guys use again for "das wird sich ausgehen" ?

Don't know about the ancient Austro-Anglo link. Maybe it has to do with the Germanic/Celtic population movements, or it's just a dialect thing.

Das klappt/passt/geht/funktioniert schon, I think. I've never heard the Austrian version before.

Ah yeah.

So in this case it's not that different.

I often use "Das passt/geht/funktioniert". But I also say "das wird sich schon ausgehen" a lot when you refer to stuff that is "hopefully going to work out fine" in the future, not the present (for which you are using the other words).

I never use the word "klappen" though (=> a typical Standard/North-German word).

[Cranberry]

Austrian "das wird sich ausgehen" is rather similar to "it's going to work out." We don't use that in Standard German though. Is there some ancient Austro-Anglo link?

What do you guys use again for "das wird sich ausgehen" ?

Don't know about the ancient Austro-Anglo link. Maybe it has to do with the Germanic/Celtic population movements, or it's just a dialect thing.

Das klappt/passt/geht/funktioniert schon, I think. I've never heard the Austrian version before.

Ah yeah.

So in this case it's not that different.

I often use "Das passt/geht/funktioniert". But I also say "das wird sich schon ausgehen" a lot when you refer to stuff that is "hopefully going to work out fine" in the future, not the present (for which you are using the other words).

I never use the word "klappen" though (=> a typical Standard/North-German word).

Yeah, I'm pretty much like Tender here. I far more often say "Das wird schon gehen" instead of "Das geht schon" -> so also this present/future thing....

Haha, yeah, "klappen" is so typically German...

Another thing I so often hear with this German German/Austrian German thing, is that German do use the word "hässlich", while we (I assume you too, Tender) would say "schiach" (given that's Austrian/South German dialect, but still, noone says "hässlich")

[Franzl]

I would never have guessed (except in context) that "schiach" had something to do with "hässlich".

[Tender Branson]

Austrian "das wird sich ausgehen" is rather similar to "it's going to work out." We don't use that in Standard German though. Is there some ancient Austro-Anglo link?

What do you guys use again for "das wird sich ausgehen" ?

Don't know about the ancient Austro-Anglo link. Maybe it has to do with the Germanic/Celtic population movements, or it's just a dialect thing.

Das klappt/passt/geht/funktioniert schon, I think. I've never heard the Austrian version before.

Ah yeah.

So in this case it's not that different.

I often use "Das passt/geht/funktioniert". But I also say "das wird sich schon ausgehen" a lot when you refer to stuff that is "hopefully going to work out fine" in the future, not the present (for which you are using the other words).

I never use the word "klappen" though (=> a typical Standard/North-German word).

Yeah, I'm pretty much like Tender here. I far more often say "Das wird schon gehen" instead of "Das geht schon" -> so also this present/future thing....

Haha, yeah, "klappen" is so typically German...

Another thing I so often hear with this German German/Austrian German thing, is that German do use the word "hässlich", while we (I assume you too, Tender) would say "schiach" (given that's Austrian/South German dialect, but still, noone says "hässlich")

Yepp.

And then there's of course the classical "Oachkatzlschwoaf" or the "Iaxnboscht", which German folks outside or north of Bavaria can't even pronounce (and most of them probably won't even know what it means) ...

[Yeahsayyeah]

The most outstanding are of course those sweet guttural sounds South Germans and Austrians do, if they use diminuitives. Noone here can pronounce "-erl" properly. ;-)
An Eichhörnchen isn't a cat, obviously. And only a comet has a Schweif.

"Kann es sein, dass Weibsvolk anwesend ist?" is the only way I could imagine a proper use of womenfolk. I think, Tender will get the reference. ;-)

I like it how the topic of this thread evolved into Austrian-German language differences.