Re: what's something special about region of the country you live in
Hi.
I come from an arria in Germany called the Ruhrgebiet, the Ruhr arria, the Ruhr is a river which encloses this arria of Germany together with the Rhine, it is located in the central of North-Rhine-Westfalia.
The Arria is widely known for it's mining activitys which were actually recognized throughout Europe. In fact, the Ruhr Arria was the biggest ore and cole mining place in Europe and was a very big factore in the rebuilding of Germany after the second world war had ended.
The mining has now stopped, as a matter of fact, the last mining site has been closed recently.
One thing that we are known for is what we call a raw hardiness, you will find someone from the Ruhr Arria talking to you and even though he might sound angry with you, he already could be your best friend. due to the way that the people talk and the expressions they use, you get a really rough sounding German. Things like grammar also follow their own ways.
for example, you don't say, it's raining, you would say it is doing raining. You can't really transcribe it well, you would need to listen in comparison to your normal high German. Or, you don't go to your grand mas house, you go to, grand ma her house. Also, when a word ends with an s sounds, we make a t out of the sound. Due to that we speak really fast, you also pull words together, a simple, come on turns into a cmone as an example. The language is also heavily influenced by people from other cuntrys coming hear to find work in the mining sites or the steal industry. Parts of the polish language found their way into modern speak. A Mottek is basically just a mining hammer which you take to work, while a Matka is an elderly round female. Mostly, people have a hard shell and a soft core so to speak, with a lot of passion for their place of birth, people know that they took a large part in the rebuild of Germany and you can definatelly feel that when talking to older persons, of whom went underground in the 50s to 70s to mine the ore. Friendship plays a large role here.
Also, Soccer is really a thing here and you will found two teams which everyone is after, which are local rivals. When these teams are heading for a match in one of the two home towns, you really feel that fire burning and everyone beeing under pressure. Also, and people from berlin might object to that, but we were the inventors of the Currywurst, basically sausages with a curry sauce, french fries and ketchup or mayonaise with the fries, traditionally you drink a beer, mostly a Pils to that.
The Ruhgebiet is changing rappitly. The time where the laundry which you hung out to dry and it turned all dirty due to the smoke of the industrial machines is over, more and more green parks and arrias are founded. Well, one nuisance remains though, the famous Autobahn, or rather highway a40 which draws a line through the whole arria is a major pain in the ass because everytime you have to travel it, you sooner or later land in a traffic jam.
So, even though the people over hear seam rough and a little blunt, don't be scared and give us a visit if you are in germany, I am happy to show you around.
Greetings Moritz.
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