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Why are redditors like this? (beehaw.org)
submitted 11 months ago by bermuda@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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I made a post on r/civ (Civilization games subreddit) showing a really funky shaped randomly generated river I saw and most comments were fine but one guy was convinced that I went through the comparatively monumental effort of opening the map editor and changing the river for karma, as opposed to just starting the game and taking a screenshot.

And just to top it off another guy saw the fact that my scout unit was in the far north of the map and went on an obscenely condescending diatribe about how "ackshually" I should be placing my units in the far south of the map because that way I can explore better and whatever the hell. Dude did not stop for one second to consider that maybe the scout that was in the far north was exploring the cool river and that I didn't waste any production points on him because I got him for free from a tribal village...

God every time I go on that website (because let's be honest not a whole lot of good communities here for what I'm interested in) I get excited to share something super innocent and then some total loser has to come and ruin it all.

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[–] Skua@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I'm curious to know a bit about Swiss German now. Would the average German speaker from Germany understand it? Is there any desire to just call it "Swiss"?

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

It depends. People from southern germany would understand it mostly. But the more north you go the less they understand it. People from austria tend to understand it pretty well. But we have a lot od different accents as well. But it also depends on the accent. Some thick accent is really hard to understand.

[–] amio@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Switzerland has four official languages, so just calling it Swiss would sort of confuse matters.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

True, but no one says i speak swiss french or swiss italian.

[–] garden_boi@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

No, an average German speaker from Germany wouldn't understand it. It's basically an extremely heavy German dialect, belonging to the group of Allemanic German dialects. Non intelligible dialects are not uncommon in many parts of Germany, though. In some German regions (e.g. southern Black Forest), the local dialects also belong to the group of Allemanic dialects. The locals from there might have a somewhat easier time getting used to Swiss German dialect varieties.