{"id":10602,"date":"2019-05-16T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=10602"},"modified":"2019-05-06T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T22:02:10","slug":"dwight-schrutes-terrific-german-part-2-german-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/dwight-schrutes-terrific-german-part-2-german-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwight Schrute’s Terrific German – Part 2: German Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may remember Dwight Schrute, the quirky top paper salesman from NBC’s “The Office” (by the way, there is a German spin-off, called Stromberg<\/em><\/a>). While the sitcom celebrated its finale back in May 2013, it is still one of the most watched shows today. And Mr Schrute is one of the audience’s favorite characters. Not only his dorky, freaky personality makes him uniquely popular, but also the emphasis on German stereotypes. From his strict sense of law and order to his upkeep of old Schrute family traditions, he proudly lives his German (Pennsylvania Dutch) heritage. Let’s take a deeper dive into all of Dwight’s Germanness throughout ALL 9 seasons of The Office. From his word use to nods to German culture and traditions. Today, we check out Dwight’s “German” words and phrases he dropped throughout all seasons!<\/p>\n

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Image by author, picture of Dwight’s bobblehead by Justiny8s at Flickr.com under license CC BY 2.0.<\/p><\/div>\n

The “German” or “Pennsylvania Dutch” words Dwight uses are pretty much all completely made up. While most words are definitely not German, they could be Pennsylvania Dutch – which is quite a different dialect originating from immigrants speaking a 18\/19th century version of early Palatine German<\/a> (also check this out if you want to read some Pennsylvania Dutch!<\/a>). After all, Dwight claimed his German is “pre-industrial and mostly religious” (S5E19). But let’s see what of Dwight’s German words make sense (if any) and how!<\/p>\n