Timeline for Is German on social media very distinct from standard German?
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| Sep 8, 2018 at 10:00 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Sep 4, 2018 at 23:13 | comment | added | Nobody | I don't know how much that applies to Germany, but I mostly encounter written (Swiss) German dialects in private messages, not public ones. There, the language is as changed as you describe, barely a word unaltered, completely different language. Most of my German friends use their dialects very sparingly if at all | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 14:35 | answer | added | Christian Geiselmann | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 12:58 | comment | added | user34137 | @Christian Geiselmann You make a good point here. Yes, that is a very important reason for this distinction between written and spoken language, but it seems getting the whole picture is a little hard for non-native Arabic speakers since I don't think they happen to notice the difference between colloquial Arabic and German used on FB. I have said it is relative and one must know both languages to realize this difference exactly. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 12:50 | comment | added | Christian Geiselmann | I think the issue is here with Arabic, not with German. Arabic has, as far as I know, an extremely different "standard language" (or literature language) as compared to spoken varieties. This is related, I believe, at least in part, to sticking to the literacy tradition of the Quran and related sources that are meant to be not altered, whereas in other languages modern developments of spoken language are reflected also in the written variety after some time. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 12:37 | comment | added | simbabque | I would not agree with people in Schleswig-Holstein speaking Hochdeutsch. I'm from Hannover. We have the reputation of Wir sprechen wie ihr schreibt. I do omit sounds sometimes, but it is very easy for me to speak very proper Hochdeutsch if I want to. I never learned the Hannoverean dialect. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 11:42 | comment | added | user34137 | @simbabque Thank you, I know that people in Schleswig-Holstein speak the closest to standard German. What other parts of Germany in addition to Lower Saxony do speak varieties close to standard German as well? | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 11:25 | comment | added | user6495 | @DirkLiebhold I don't really use facebook but if I read comments on tagesschau.de, I see an astonishing number of grammar and punctuation mistakes. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 10:30 | answer | added | simbabque | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 10:13 | comment | added | simbabque | I'm from Lower Saxony, so I mostly speak standard written German. Someone I now is from the UK and lives in the north of Italy, in one of the few "German-speaking" villages. He tries to learn German, but finds it very hard because of the strong dialect they speak. For laughs, he has shown me the WhatsApp chat groups with his friends from where he lives. They all write their dialect, there are no rules for how to transliterate pronunciation and I do not understand more than a few words when reading that. Often I wouldn't even get what the messages are about. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 8:57 | comment | added | Dirk | I think you can't take news sites as a source for colloquial speech. People posting there want to seem intelligent and (try to) write accordingly. Overall, comments on Facebook are not the best place to look for that, they are public and people don't want to be called out on their orthographic skills in public... | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 20:28 | answer | added | user34137 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 19:15 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Sep 2, 2018 at 18:53 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Some such posters eschew all capital letters, and some post in slang or regional dialects. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 18:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackGerman/status/1036313244196061185 | ||
| Sep 2, 2018 at 14:42 | answer | added | Janka | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 11:37 | answer | added | Hubert Schölnast | timeline score: 34 | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 10:53 | comment | added | guidot♦ | I'm not sure, whether the main part of this question is covered by German Language, socio-linguistics and psychology seem also to be involved. The distinction may be similar (but stronger) to the difference between spoken and written language. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 10:50 | history | edited | Hubert Schölnast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 2, 2018 at 10:37 | history | asked | user34137 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |