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| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5763 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 1 of 10 22 May 2009 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is there any difference in the pronunciation of ist and isst?
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 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6443 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 10 22 May 2009 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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No. Short i in both.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5687 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 10 22 May 2009 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | ||
Exactly, it's the same sound! Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Weizenkeim Diglot Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5944 days ago 70 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 10 22 May 2009 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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the only difference in sound I could think of is, that "ist" can lose its 't' in everyday spoken German, while "isst" can not.
so if you hear something like: Hans is' eine Wurst. it would definitely be an insult, but if someone says: Hans is(s)t eine Wurst. you'd have to get it from context. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5763 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 5 of 10 22 May 2009 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Great answers, thank you.
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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5605 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 6 of 10 24 May 2009 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Is it a common insult in Germany to call someone a sausage?! :-) Edited by Dark_Sunshine on 24 May 2009 at 12:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Paramecium Tetraglot Groupie Germany Joined 5552 days ago 46 posts - 59 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Russian Studies: Japanese | Message 7 of 10 24 May 2009 at 8:12am | IP Logged | ||
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No. :-D I don't know where Weizenkeim is from, but in my region we use other ways to insult a person. I think he just wanted to give an easy example with "isst" and "iss".
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| Weizenkeim Diglot Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5944 days ago 70 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 10 24 May 2009 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, ok, it is not a very grave insult to call someone "Wurst". But I sometimes hear it and use it myself and it is not really a nice thing to say either, more like something you say with a winking eye. If somebody behaved very clumsyly in a certain situation for example I would say to him: "Du bist vielleicht so 'ne Wurst" (mind that vielleicht in this example doesn't mean maybe but is used more like an emphasizing particle)
or "Mann, der Typ ist echt eine Wurst" I would say about some slacker guy who never gets anything finished or frequently provokes anyone around him to 'face palm' with his awkward behaviour. I am from lower saxony by the way. I don't know, maybe it is regionally limited. The Wurst-people are definitely not. They are common around the whole world. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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