English Proficiency Index: Danes are the best non-native English-speakers

[Franzl]

"Aufzug" is the word I'd use.

[Franzl]

"Aufzug" is the word I'd use.

Yes, because you are from Hessen and speak "High-German".

But we Austrians always shiver when we hear Germans use "kucken" instead of "schauen", "Quark" instead of "Topfen", "Tüte" instead of "Sackerl", "eine Eins im Zeugnis bekommen" instead of "einen Einser im Zeugnis bekommen", "Laken" instead of "Leintuch" or when you guys pronounce "China" as "Schiiina" instead of "Kina" or "Chemie" as "Schemie" instead of "Keemie".

And a 1000 other words that I currently don't remember ...

I'm guilty of each and every one of those

[Franzl]

Austrian "das wird sich ausgehen" is rather similar to "it's going to work out." We don't use that in Standard German though. Is there some ancient Austro-Anglo link?

What do you guys use again for "das wird sich ausgehen" ?

Don't know about the ancient Austro-Anglo link. Maybe it has to do with the Germanic/Celtic population movements, or it's just a dialect thing.

Das klappt/passt/geht/funktioniert schon, I think. I've never heard the Austrian version before.

[Franzl]

I would never have guessed (except in context) that "schiach" had something to do with "hässlich".