Timeline for Is it "Vierergruppe" or "Viergruppe", or is there a distinction?
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| Mar 12, 2019 at 14:51 | comment | added | Chieron | @SebastianRedl the Northern Waldviertel should be rural enough. It did also confuse my Viennese companions. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 9:16 | comment | added | Sebastian Redl | @Chieron As a Vienna native, saying "Sechserzimmer" for room number 6 would confuse me too. Seems unusual to me; it sounds extremely rural. | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 22:10 | comment | added | AnoE | It almost seems like this is an evolving, living, dynamic language. :-) | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 16:15 | comment | added | David Vogt | @Chieron That's beautiful! | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 15:36 | comment | added | Chieron | @DavidVogt in the North, the grades are referenced as "Eins, Zwei, Drei,..", the Southern variant is extremely uncommon. Regarding the "Zweierzimmer": I once had an annoying experience with an Austrian innkeeper, who referred to his room number 6 as "das Sechserzimmer" on the phone, which I interpreted as "Sechsbettzimmer" (as would be the usual description). There were only 2 beds of course. | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 15:09 | history | edited | David Vogt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2019 at 13:45 | comment | added | IQV | @gerrit Yes. That's the way pupils call the grades in colloquial speech, at least in Southern Germany. | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 13:23 | comment | added | David Vogt | I grew up in Southern Germany and find Fünfer unremarkable. Now we need a Northerner's opinion :) | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 13:15 | comment | added | gerrit | Wiktionary notes that the noun Zweier (or Fünfer) referring to a grade is Austrian or perhaps Süddeutsch. Would you agree? | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 12:33 | comment | added | David Vogt | A Viereck has four corners, so the lack of -er isn't surprising. An interesting case could be Zwei(er)gespann, where the meaning would fit -er but the form without it occurs more frequently. | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 12:03 | comment | added | AnoE | Also, in my experience with (older) maths books specifically, there do seem to be some weird nomenclatures around. I can't think of another example right now, but I would not be surprised if some mathematical book used "Viergruppe" consistently (although I would use "Vierergruppe" myself). Finally, what do you make of "Vierkant", "Viereck"... ;) | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 10:15 | history | answered | David Vogt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |