Timeline for How should I say something like "I'm" instead of "I am" in German?

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Aug 8, 2015 at 17:12	comment	added	Guntram Blohm		@Em1: The `wer` is a contraction of `irgendwer`, `jemand` is just a word that happens to have a similar meaning.
Aug 7, 2015 at 13:10	comment	added	elena		@Em1: All in all a good and fitting answer, though. It makes the important point that German does have phenomena like the one in the question, but in entirely different places than English.
Aug 7, 2015 at 8:48	comment	added	Em1		Only three of your six examples are relevant to that question. "gibt's", "bist'n" and "weiste". One of the other ones is not even a contraction but just another word (which just happens to be shorter).
Aug 7, 2015 at 8:45	comment	added	linac		Yes, but a lot of these are not "universally" used, but are region- (or dialect-) specific. Generally, the less formal the situation, the more people tend to fall back to their original dialect. (Which might be used by public figures like politicians to "connect" - take Bavaria as an example.)
Aug 7, 2015 at 7:56	history	answered	Liglo App	CC BY-SA 3.0