phr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
yup. got a friend who visited recently after 7(?) years abroad. her phonetics and prosody are now anglicised.
also, my grandma once made fun of my german accent. (thats a more complicated story but yeah potato kartoffel.)
ReedReads@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I initially skimmed this and read that as “potato kerfuffle” and wanted to know more.
phr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
i wanted to point you to a potato kerfuffle. unforch this article only exists in german wikipedia:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overather_Kartoffelkrieg
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