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Old 11.05.2007, 14:26
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Re: Swiss German or High German

From the swissinfo article:

The forum has published a pamphlet, in French and German, entitled "Dialect in (German-speaking) Switzerland – The conflict between local identity and national cohesion".


That pretty much says it all for me as far as the language divide in Switzerland: A pamphlet that discusses issues involving the national languages, but is only published in two of them. If they're not careful, they'll look south one day and find Berlusconi in the parlor.

Also wanted to express solidarity with the earlier poster who constructs sentences made up of Dutch, German & Swedish combined into one language. I do the same thing with Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Since none of them are my native language and they all have a lot of things in common, my brain tends to merge them together into one crazy super-language. (And I'm sure my accent is just fascinating.)
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