President Obama thinks 'Austrian' is a language? {Gadling}

Apr 7th 2009 6:59PM That's not quite true - I spent in Austria at least one year and have never heard anybody saying that. There are some politicians now, who are trying to suggest that Austrian German should be called Austrian – but any Austrian would tell you that yes, they speak German and yes, it is a dialect of German (by the way there are hundreds of different dialects of German used in Austria (and in Germany, of-course). But the point is that while it is not a big deal, if Bush would have uttered something like that media would have been all over him right away.