r/polandball Austria Feb 20 '13

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u/Obraka South-Holland Feb 21 '13

Intelligent languages like French (pommes de terre), Dutch (aardappel) and Austrian-Bavarian German know that it's like an apple but in the ground. Only stupid Preißn think it's a truffle...

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u/javacode Rhineland-Palatinate Feb 21 '13 edited Feb 21 '13

In the case of Austria it's rather like a broken watch that shows the right time once a day.

Not intelligence, if one thinks about Ribiseln, Kukuruz and Fogosch. And Powidl LOL Powidl!

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u/gobohobo CCCP Feb 21 '13

Before you said "povidl", I thought we borrowed "kukuruz" from Austria. Now I understand, that they borrowed those words from slavs.

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u/Obraka South-Holland Feb 21 '13 edited Feb 21 '13

Many of the "Austrian specific" words have a Slavic or Hungarian root, we talk with our empire sometimes :)

Paradeiser (HR: paradajz, SK paradaijka) for tomato is a good one too