Toto the Terminator?
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Is it just me or is anyone else wondering if Toto Wolff is auditioning for Radio 4s "Deadringers" as Arnie Schwarzenegger?
I had half an ear on the BBC coverage yesterday morning and was just waiting for him to get into character.
As the meerkats are using "I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle" at the moment I'll go with ...
Allan/Tom/Suzi/Lee etc "So what developments might we see in F1 in the next few years Toto?"
"I have detailed files on human anatomy"
Anyone else?
I had half an ear on the BBC coverage yesterday morning and was just waiting for him to get into character.
As the meerkats are using "I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle" at the moment I'll go with ...
Allan/Tom/Suzi/Lee etc "So what developments might we see in F1 in the next few years Toto?"
"I have detailed files on human anatomy"
Anyone else?
An amusing thought, but if you've been speaking German a long time (as I have), you'd realize that their accents are completly different. Toto comes from vienna (like Niki too), but Arnie comes from Graz in the Steiermark, and speaks completly differently.
A bit like the difference between geordie and glaswegian
But the way Suzi speaks Austrian German with a scottish accent
I'll be back......
A bit like the difference between geordie and glaswegian
But the way Suzi speaks Austrian German with a scottish accent
I'll be back......
GuitarTech said:
An amusing thought, but if you've been speaking German a long time (as I have), you'd realize that their accents are completly different. Toto comes from vienna (like Niki too), but Arnie comes from Graz in the Steiermark, and speaks completly differently.
A bit like the difference between geordie and glaswegian
But the way Suzi speaks Austrian German with a scottish accent
I'll be back......
Interesting. My gf is Bavarian and I was asking her this but she couldn't answer: I've got quite a good ear for accents and can imitate say, a Frankonian versus Hochdeutsch and can do a passable immigration of Lauda speaking English, but why do he and Toto sound so different if they're both Vienese?A bit like the difference between geordie and glaswegian
But the way Suzi speaks Austrian German with a scottish accent
I'll be back......
Their accents are completely different to me (and my gf!) with Toto favouring the monotone, machine-gun delivery and Lauda using a strange, staccato, broken upwards inflection before each comma.
I assume they are both well educated etc etc so what gives?
Disastrous said:
GuitarTech said:
An amusing thought, but if you've been speaking German a long time (as I have), you'd realize that their accents are completly different. Toto comes from vienna (like Niki too), but Arnie comes from Graz in the Steiermark, and speaks completly differently.
A bit like the difference between geordie and glaswegian
But the way Suzi speaks Austrian German with a scottish accent
I'll be back......
Interesting. My gf is Bavarian and I was asking her this but she couldn't answer: I've got quite a good ear for accents and can imitate say, a Frankonian versus Hochdeutsch and can do a passable immigration of Lauda speaking English, but why do he and Toto sound so different if they're both Vienese?A bit like the difference between geordie and glaswegian
But the way Suzi speaks Austrian German with a scottish accent
I'll be back......
Their accents are completely different to me (and my gf!) with Toto favouring the monotone, machine-gun delivery and Lauda using a strange, staccato, broken upwards inflection before each comma.
I assume they are both well educated etc etc so what gives?
I think Arnies accent is a now a strange mixture of steiermark austrian and usa english, I'm pretty sure his accent would have been much more pronounced before he moved to america.
I know from personal experience how accents change. I've been living in north Germany since 1983, and people still hear right away that I'm english. But when I go back home to yorkshire on a visit, they accuse me of speaking english with a german accent...
Bavaria is a case in point, the accents vary tremendously all over bavaria depending on where you are.
One thing's for sure: nobody can say "I'll be back" better than Arnie, it's one of my very favorite film one-liners
GuitarTech said:
Disastrous said:
GuitarTech said:
An amusing thought, but if you've been speaking German a long time (as I have), you'd realize that their accents are completly different. Toto comes from vienna (like Niki too), but Arnie comes from Graz in the Steiermark, and speaks completly differently.
A bit like the difference between geordie and glaswegian
But the way Suzi speaks Austrian German with a scottish accent
I'll be back......
Interesting. My gf is Bavarian and I was asking her this but she couldn't answer: I've got quite a good ear for accents and can imitate say, a Frankonian versus Hochdeutsch and can do a passable immigration of Lauda speaking English, but why do he and Toto sound so different if they're both Vienese?A bit like the difference between geordie and glaswegian
But the way Suzi speaks Austrian German with a scottish accent
I'll be back......
Their accents are completely different to me (and my gf!) with Toto favouring the monotone, machine-gun delivery and Lauda using a strange, staccato, broken upwards inflection before each comma.
I assume they are both well educated etc etc so what gives?
I think Arnies accent is a now a strange mixture of steiermark austrian and usa english, I'm pretty sure his accent would have been much more pronounced before he moved to america.
I know from personal experience how accents change. I've been living in north Germany since 1983, and people still hear right away that I'm english. But when I go back home to yorkshire on a visit, they accuse me of speaking english with a german accent...
Bavaria is a case in point, the accents vary tremendously all over bavaria depending on where you are.
One thing's for sure: nobody can say "I'll be back" better than Arnie, it's one of my very favorite film one-liners
Talking of Bavaria, I picked up a fridge magnet in Nürnberg the other day that says "Franken lichd nedd am meer" which made me laugh, when I said it in their accent in my head. My gf's family live out in the countryside outside the City so know loads of grumpy farmers etc who would turn their nose up at a fish dinner with just that phrase.
Disastrous said:
Interessant, danke!
Talking of Bavaria, I picked up a fridge magnet in Nürnberg the other day that says "Franken lichd nedd am meer" which made me laugh, when I said it in their accent in my head. My gf's family live out in the countryside outside the City so know loads of grumpy farmers etc who would turn their nose up at a fish dinner with just that phrase.
You should move up here to Lübeck. 27km from the Baltic sea, and any amount of lovely fresh fish to eat. I could never live in bavaria with only fleischflanzerl and reibedarchi (sp?) to eat Talking of Bavaria, I picked up a fridge magnet in Nürnberg the other day that says "Franken lichd nedd am meer" which made me laugh, when I said it in their accent in my head. My gf's family live out in the countryside outside the City so know loads of grumpy farmers etc who would turn their nose up at a fish dinner with just that phrase.
I do rather like their beer though if I'm down there 
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