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She's already said she's from Switzerland...

Ey, remember, Elgan works in the comsetics biz, that's kinda like brainwashing... No wonder he forgets (or doesn't realize) stuff...

-IvaN- wrote:... Bernese...

what's ur Bernese about? Is it so different to e.g. Basel's Swiss-German to be a language of its own? If I understood someone from Zurich, wouldn't I understand Bernese? Where I must agree that someone from Hamburg could have problems understanding me

Well, I've only heard of Schwytzert?tsch (sorry if I misspelled it ), didn't know that divisions go further.

Rookie One.pl {sfx} wrote:Well, I've only heard of Schwytzert?tsch (sorry if I misspelled it ), didn't know that divisions go further.

exactly thats what I thought

Ay, are you all secret Swiss???? How on earth do you know that there's Schwitzert?tsch (you're great Rookie! Anyway, you can write it like you say it as there are no rules!) and Baselt??tsch and Z?rit??tsch?! Geez!
Well, as I already said, there are four languages in CH (Confederatia Helvetica - or something like this... Just means Switzerland (btw, I'm sure YOU know what CH exactly stands for... )). So, there's French (West), Italian (South), R?toromanisch (nobody actually really talks that ) (East) and all the rest is German. The dialect you speak depends on where you live (that's the same with English, I guess - I assume that someone from Texas has quite a different English from a Brit ). So, I live in Berne and that's why I talk Bernese.
Good thing about all those dialect (esp. Bernese) is, that there are no rules (well, there must be some, but I don't think people know 'em all). That means, you can write dialect just as you say things (it's hard to read though). And you can create new words...!
But you now have to tell me, why you know about all those dialects! Where are you from anyway?

PS: Yeah, people who speak different dialects still understand each other - if they wanna be understood . I could talk my dialect in a way that noone from Z?rich could possibly understand me... Cool, ay?!

-IvaN- wrote:...R?toromanisch (nobody actually really talks that )

hehe don't let this be read by one of the 30.000 who do speak it Might be a fundamentalistic Graub?ndener

So it's rather like here, then. It's just a dialect like my Bavarian. But there are - and this might be similar in Switzerland - ppl who can just speak Bavarian and who are not able to speak standard German at all. Bad for tourists from the North of Germany (or further away)

Creating new words in Bernese? This will become IvaNese then and sooner or later u wont be understood in Berne anymore

-IvaN- wrote: Ay, are you all secret Swiss???? How on earth do you know that there's Schwitzert?tsch (you're great Rookie! Anyway, you can write it like you say it as there are no rules!) and Baselt??tsch and Z?rit??tsch?! Geez!

Well, actually, I only did know about Schwitzert?tsch. I was taught that in my German classes (we had a series of lessons about the DACH countries).

-IvaN- wrote:R?toromanisch

This rings a bell... We even listened to a sample of this. Could only make out a word or two out of that.

-IvaN- wrote:I assume that someone from Texas has quite a different English from a Brit

Geez, of course! Just compare Bush and Blair...

-IvaN- wrote:But you now have to tell me, why you know about all those dialects! Where are you from anyway?

Just as I said, we learn about them in German classes. I'm Polish.

regarding the different Switzerd?tsch versions, and lots of other dialects and languages, take a look at http://www.forums9.ch/sprachen/Rosetta.htm. Quite funny

Your a Polissian? (Polish-Swedish-Russian )

Sounds crazy with all those Dialects

Nah, I'm just Polish.

wacko wrote:regarding the different Switzerd?tsch versions, and lots of other dialects and languages, take a look at http://www.forums9.ch/sprachen/Rosetta.htm. Quite funny

Wow! I think I wouldn't be able to pronounce most of it... Lol!

Rookie One.pl {sfx} wrote:Wow! I think I wouldn't be able to pronounce most of it... Lol!

lol, yeah, I'm glad I wont have to read these (even) German dialects to the respective natives. They'd die laughing probably Btw, there's polish too

ROFL, it's full of ortographical mistakes!

Rookie One.pl {sfx} wrote:ROFL, it's full of ortographical mistakes!

I see, that's why I couldn't read it

Schwitzert?tsch

Baselt??tsch

Z?rit??tsch

Holy shit... that's... a lot of dots.

In USA all we have is Suthanese, Bostonian, and Normal. oh, and Spanish for the illegals.

in case any of you are wondering Suthanese is the South-East of USA.
Bostonian is East coast, the entire, east coast. it sounds vaguely British. and Normal is Central and Northern. it sounds normal to me... then again i'm from hte Northwest too...

the illegal Mexicans are all over the border states so most of them are considering making it an official language.