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Helen Arco from Schwaz reports
Stories and words that don’t fall in oblivion!
The “Volkswitz” (public joke) doesn’t spare the clergy. In the past a Padre of Franciscan Convent in Schwaz was called "Tuadsintnschluka" (deadly sin swallower). This expression comes from his absolution method. When somebody came to his confessional he used to ask: “hosch eppan umbrocht, hosch eppas gstoln?" (Have you killed anybody? Have you stolen anything?If this was denied he said: “dös ondere nimm i auf mi" (I take the rest upon me) and he gave his absolution. Well, you can imagine how many people were queuing in front of Padre Virgil’s confessional.
Helen Arco's Dialect Dictionary
(oane) ausfossn
- to get a slap in the face
a diam od adiamol
- sometime
afln
- becoming a blister
ament
- at the end (it won’t work and so on)
angottswilln
- for God’s sake
Ant- duckanterisch
- to have goose-pimples
Antlass
- Corpus Christi
anwegumgea
- to be in somebody’s way
Apadeggn
- chemist’s
Äpflbaz
- apple compote
Äpflputz
- the rest of an apple after you have eaten it (core and so on) |
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