Sometimes people think that Austrians and Germans are talking the same language. Well sometimes we do, but sometimes...not.
When I came back to Austria I just noticed, that I had spoken a pretty straight German in the time I was not here. And I almost rolled on the floor laughing when I came to work for the first day. Even if I'm not pretty sure what I am doing in this company, besides getting papers in the right order and writing some "useful" stuff in a computer, I somehow like being there. There's one thing I can never forget as long as I am working here: my nationality.

People in here are all talking like real viennese people should talk. But for some odd reason we are loosing our language more and more. Or should I say we let it go? I'm not sure about that. But it's always fun to be reminded on all those cool phrases we use here - which would be considered as "low" in nowadays society. So we use those things among friends or in our family, but better not outside in the streets when we want something. Somewhere. Otherwise people would call us "gscheat" which is not a nice word for someone who is quite naughty in talking using a lot of "low"-slang words.

If something goes wrong or we fail doing something, it's definitely "oasch!". And believe me I heard the phrase "Des is oasch!" quite often during this week! XD Sometimes also something like "Na des is scho oasch" or "Ois oasch!". A normal german speaking would say "Das ist scheiße." or "alles scheiße.". But in Vienna you often hear "Oasch" instead of "Scheiße". Also used in "Des geht ma am Oasch" which means "This is getting on my nerves" in a very harsh tone. Or we also use it like "Des geht ma am Oasch vorbei!" what in german would mean something like "Ist mir scheißegal" and in english "I really do not care about that!". The real translation for "Oasch" would be "butt". It's slang... ;D

And if we are talking about some of our workmates or friends we do not think to be very competent or who did something we do not consider as useful or logical, we call them "Trottel". Well in our company almost everyone seems to be a "Trottel" according to how often we use it. And if he or she is not a "Trottel", then he or she might at least be "a bissl deppert". which means "a little bit stupid" in our beautiful language. This leads to one phrase you really hear quite often in Vienna: "Bist du deppert!". And no - this one is not always meant negative! We also say it when something happens we either can not believe or do not want to believe. For example when an accident happens and there are about 10 persons which are in hospital as a cause of the accident you might hear a "Bist du deppert!". But also when something really big happens that is a positive experience for us. So you can use it instead of "WOOOW" too. It always depends on the sound of our voice! :)
But be aware, we also use it when someone does something we do not want him to do. Like someone takes your phone without permission. That might be another reason for a "Bist du deppert?". Then it is - of course - not meant in a nice way ;).

Often our beloved citizens also use "deppert" combined with another typical word: "Heast". Literally it means nothing else than "Hörst du" or in english "Listen". For Austrians also this is a word we ALWAYS use. At least in the eastern part of Austria. When we are going by car and there is a guy in front of us driving far too slow or something, we shout: "Heast, Oida!", meaning "Listen, old man." But for us it's more like an expression for being annoyed.
An extended version of "Heast, Oida" would be "Heast, Oida, bist du deppert?". And another lovely phrase using this two words is "Heast, Oida, wos wüüst?" meaning - "Hey, old man, what do you want?".

"Oida" grew to one of the most used words among the young people in Vienna, it was kind of a trend-word in the past years, used for almost everything. Just to show you how:

A: "Could you please wash the dishes?"
B: "Maah, Oidaaa..." (Meaning: "I don't want to do it.")

A: +Blablabla+ ... or we could do it like this...or like that...or..."
B: "Oida?!" (Meaning: "Please dont get on my nerves any longer.")

A: ...Yeah and then XYZ happened and I had to come home because of ..."
B: "Oida! And what happened then?" (Meaning: "Fuck! And what happened then?")

A: "Oida?!, Could you please help me?" (Meaning: "Hey, man, could you please help me?" --> I often used this when I called my brother XD )

A: "Yeah and then the agency called and I had to cancel the flight."
B: "Oida..." (Meaning: "Noo, that can't be true..." in a sad way)

A: "When I told him the story he just started laughing and then..."
B: "OIDA?" (Meaning: "Is he crazy??" or "No way!")

Oida, as you can see this word is very useful :P. It expresses everything!
We have lots of funny words in our language and I never understood why other german speaking people sometimes do not understand us, but being a little bit more attentive or better keeping an eye on our language, whilst working after being away from here for a long time, I now can understand, why it might at least sometimes be difficult to understand Austrians! :)

Who does not know the feeling. We got a newspaper, already read the gossip stuff, the sports part or whatever we are interested in, according to the horoscope we know what we can reach today and tomorrow or who we're gonna fall in love with. Okay. Who cares about politics and stuff - but even that we read already - and our break lasts only in about twenty minutes and we do not want to go back to work until then. So we go back to the crossword puzzle.

Everyday again and again we try to fill it in completely. FAIL. Who of you does always know all the right answers to the questions? Who understands all of them?
Rivers, Islands, Castles, Capital Cities... The easy things, 'cause they are always the same! But sometimes there's things we haven't even heard of. How frustrating.
So one of my workmates came up with the idea of creating her own crosswords. Why not?
"Those questions cannot be real ones. They are faked. So now I do them by myself, because I also can create fake-questions! HA!" (And no, they were real, she just did not know them :P )

Just to prove it, we - another workmate and I - opened google and started getting the answers for her from the internet. Not without making a fool out of her for sure. But we had fun and learned some quite useful things for crosswords.
Did you know that the Island in front of Neapel (Capri) consists of chalk? Or maybe you knew the answer which scale unit we use to define the strength of magnetic fields?

Well every person who had science in school and was not a complete idiot in that (like me sometimes) would have answered the second question with "Ampere per meter". FAIL! Since the first letter was an "O". Good, so there had to be a second thing we can use for that. And I found it in Wikipedia:
There's two different systems of units or how they called it. So in the first one - called "SI" the unit for magnetic field strength is Ampere/meter and in the second one called "CGS" it's Oersted (Oe).

After that one we gave it up since we all felt like having an IQ of a person in preschool or even lower.
Now we know things we did not even want to know, but the lunch break was over quite fast with searching for all this crazy stuff. And since we did not have lots to do anyway, we even found the time to talk about all the crappy things they write in the gossip newspaper.
And we also draw a conclusion: Noone of us is going to pay 1 euro for the newspaper again, since nothing is worth reading it and the puzzles are insolvable (at least for people who are used to reading those kinds of crap). We only take the ones that are for free, so that we can solve the puzzles, because they seem to be much much easier. :)

Working-Life might not always be fun.
You have to get up early in the morning.
You often have to do things you do not like to do.
And until you are back home the whole day is over.
But who says, that work-days could not be funny anyway?
Your day is what you make out of it.
And my days are always fun! :)

So this blogg is basically about the things I think about, when I have too much time at work, or somewhen else.