Inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemporary UK population

Re:Inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemp... by selimthegrim on Sunday October 06, 2019 @04:36PM (#21174943)

My (late) German cousin told me about a friend of his Swabian wife’s who moved to Swabia from her native Berlin and went to the bakery asking for Brötchen. She was told to come back when she learned how to speak German. (Maybe she said Schrippe by mistake?)

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Re:Inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemp... by ChuckNorris89 on Sunday October 06, 2019 @05:00PM (#21175095)

This one of the main gripes I have with living in Austria and Germany.

In places that are not touristic or in smaller cities that are not a big metro areas, speaking German (Hochdeutsch) is not enough. Failure to speak the local dialect of that region will get you ridiculed or even discriminated against. Not just in the service industry, but in job hunting as well.

Also, don't be named Kevin.

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Re:Inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemp... by dghughes on Sunday October 06, 2019 @10:40PM (#21176864)

My old workplace bought parts from a company in Graz, Austria occasionally they sent technicians over here to Canada. I had been practicing some German using Duolingo. At lunch I used a phrase and the Austrian guy told me how to say it in Austrian. It was funny more of a humorous jab at German pronounciation. My impression was the Austrian guys were really laid back.

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Re:Inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemp... by reaperducer on Sunday October 06, 2019 @05:16PM (#21175201)

Not just small towns. I've been unpleasantly corrected about Flughafen vs. Luftbanhof in Vienna.

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