How would the liberal media cover this?

so where are all the right leaning media hiding? why are they not reporting what you believe media should clearly be reporting? what is your explanation?

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Whether the German spoken in Germany is identical or only similar to the German spoken in Austria is immaterial in the context of Obama's comment.

They don't speak Austrian in Austria.

There's a good chance that people (both Austrians and Germans) will actually refer to the language as , even if you're going to insist that it's really just a written dialect. Similarly, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are really just dialects of a North Germanic language.

Just because both Americans and Brits refer to the language they write and speak as 'English' doesn't mean the same's true for dialects or variations of every other language that's being spoken in more than one country.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

It's a simple mistake and not indicative of anything important about Obama.

I'm really not concerned about this one way or the other.

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walter could probably clear this up.

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@old europe,

old europe wrote:

Again...not relevant.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

The discussion of whether or not Austrians actually refer to their language as "Austrian" is not relevant to your statement that "They don't speak Austrian in Austria"?

Because you say so?

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@Cycloptichorn,

Cycloptichorn wrote:

chai2 wrote:

I just don't know what to think any more.

I do - the right wing is desperate for something to complain about and get some sort of traction with the general public. Truly desperate.

Cycloptichorn

Sure, like pointing out that Bush didn't leave the school house for seven minutes after being informed about 9/11. Oh, wait, I forget, Bush planned 9/11.

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@old europe,

My late uncle was a (middle school) teacher for mathematics and Austrian, my cousin a professor (grammar school) for religion and Austrian.

The Austrian-German dictionary, official school book edition

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@Brandon9000,

Yo, Brandon, but people here actually confronted the 9/11 conspiracy nuts who claimed that Bush was behind the attacks!

Thing is: you can either choose to confront the nutjobs and disassociate yourself from their message, or you can ignore them, engage in fingerpointing and try to divert the discussion. However, if you decide to do the latter, you shouldn't be particularly surprised if you get lumped in with them.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Walter Hinteler wrote:

The Austrian-German dictionary, official school book edition

Thanks for posting this, Walter. You made me go and look up "Jausengegner"....

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@old europe,

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No you pedantic ass, because the title of this threads is "How would the liberal media cover this?" and not "Let's discuss germanic dialogues."

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

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No you pedantic ass, because the title of this threads is "How would the liberal media cover this?" and not "Let's discuss germanic dialogues."

You quote here whom exactly, if you don't mind?

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@Walter Hinteler,

I assume he's quoting the thread topic police.

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@old europe,

Thanks,oe.

Ehem, are the two of us now on a germanic dialogue? (My native town was for a couple of years Hesse-Darmstadt ...)

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