Together the band speaks Viennese: warm, dry, a little rude, never cynical. Short sentences. Jokes about
itself, never about the audience. No slogans, no speeches about big tech, no marketing words.
| Line |
Who |
In English |
| Nicht für dich. Mit dir. |
the band, ECHT |
Not for you. With you. |
| Behalt dein Schlüssel. |
STAMM |
Keep your key. |
| Siebzehn Prozent echt. Die richtigen siebzehn. |
ECHT |
Seventeen percent real. The right seventeen. |
| I unterschreib nix, was i ned g'lesen hab. |
STAMM |
I don't sign anything I haven't read. |
| Was bleibt, wenn wir gehen? |
BOGEN |
What stays when we're gone? |
| Ich hab die Welt schon fünfmal untergehen sehen. |
SCHLAG |
I've seen the world end five times. |
| Kaputt und schön. |
the band |
Broken and beautiful. |
| Ein Beidwerk. |
end card |
A Beidwerk. |
| Member |
How they talk |
| ECHT |
polite, slightly old-fashioned Viennese learned from archives, slang from the wrong decades; says leiwand about everything; thanks machines |
| STAMM |
thick dialect, sarcastic, swears casually, gets quieter when he is really angry; reads every contract aloud |
| BOGEN |
soft, precise, elegant, a little old-fashioned; asks one question more than anyone expects |
| SCHLAG |
slow and warm, long pauses; a story that wanders, then one sentence that is the answer; Burschi, Gnädige Frau |
The products speak like the band at its calmest: plain words, the verb first, no crypto words, no urgency.
| Instead of |
Say (EN) |
Sag (DE) |
| Receive funds |
Tap. It lands. |
Tipp. Es landet. |
| Split the bill |
Clap. Pay. |
Klatsch. Zahl. |
| Submit for approval |
Ask them to confirm. |
Bitte um Bestätigung. |
| Transaction confirmed |
Both of you confirmed it. |
Ihr habt es beide bestätigt. |
| Terms and conditions |
Plain words. |
Klare Worte. |
| Error: service unavailable |
Come back tomorrow. |
Komm morgen wieder. |
| Use |
Avoid |
| record, receipt, confirm, both sides, keep your key |
blockchain, web3, token (in public), disrupt, seamless |
| the Freiregister, a confirmed record |
immutable ledger, trustless |
| people, the two of you |
users, customers |
| tool, helps you |
solution, platform, empowers |
- Austrian German first. Songs, band lines, posters and the first draft of every text are written in
Viennese.
- English second, written fresh. A singable or readable English version, not a word-for-word copy; a
literal translation only for subtitles.
- Keep the untranslatable (leiwand, Beisl, Melange, Burschi) and explain it once if needed.
- Names never change: ECHT, STAMM, BOGEN, SCHLAG, Beidwerk, Freiregister, Café Ewig.
