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Specifically in the city of Bochum and its environs. Are there any idioms that are distinctive? Thanks for your input.


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Imbissdeutsch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECWoPwPK8…

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In the Northwest of Germany they’re talking some sort of a mixture of Dutch, English and German. It´s called Plattdeutsch and it is mostly spoken by the older people. Also a slang of the North is Friesisch.

Bochum lies in the Middlewest (!) in a very high populated area called Ruhrgebiet (many Heavyindustries and old Coalmines). In this area the slang is very special. It´s a deep rooted native slang and a tiny bit snotty. They accentuate the letters L, T and A and swallow some letters like St, E and Z. (But that’s not a basic rule there are exeptions)

Example:

Regular German: “Kannst Du Dir das vorstellen?” (Can you imagine that?)

Slang: “Kannse Dir datt voarstelln?”

Reg.German: “Das hatte ich mir ganz anders vorgestellt.” (That's not how I'd visualised things. / I visualised that comlplete different.)

Slang: “Datt hatt ich mir janz anders vorjestelllt.”


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both first answerer are right. here’s another video of some Bochum slang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJeLtL-4…

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