Comment on Have there been any major changes noticed in countries that have recently split?
DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 week ago
My parents emigrated in the late 1950s. After the Berlin Wall came down, they returned to Germany as tourists and noticed that former East Germans spoke a noticeably different dialect to West Germans, my father said it was similar to the difference between British English and North American English, but the change had come in only about 30 years.
It is true that here in Germany Eastern and Western accents differ, however, also in between the Western or in between the Eastern accents you have quite some difference.
On the other hand I would also say that most Eastern accents share a common undertone, more so than the Western ones.
Ziggurat@jlai.lu 1 week ago
With my limited German knowledge, They are pretty liberal regarding local dialect. People do not speak the same language in Cologne, Stuttgart, or Munich, and at least as a foreign-speaker, it’s not because you understand the people in Stuttgart that you understand the one in Kȯln. Let alone Switzerland. So I am not surprised that German spoken in east-germany sounds different.