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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "ding" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "ding" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
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A while ago a random collegue recommended me a pretty cheesy film set in Berlin. I think when the characters said “dings” when they started speaking to each other on the phone. Anyway i thought I came across this again somewhere else recently. Is this like a Jugendsprache thing?
“Dings”, “Dingens” and “Dingsbums” are common colloquial forms in Berlin for “thing” or “person” if you can’t think of the name quick enough.
– Gestern war ich mit Dingsbums am Alex.
I’ve talked that way since I was a child, so it’s not exactly Jugendsprache :)
I know the dingsbums thing, i know the whole thing of it being used as the name for someone you forgot, but why would you start a phone conversation “Dings” ?