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| and those of you out there who wonder weather to learn high german or swiss german when u come, its a simple decision...learn swiss german... u will intergrate into soceity much quicker..and when u need to sound sophisticated just simply add "en" to the end of a swiss word eg muche becomes muchen...(hehe) or get people to speak swiss german to you, u will learn it that way and then later take a german class (siwss learning classes are a joke becuase the text book is written in german so if u speak english and not much german or no german ur not goin to get far) | |
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Ummm, ok - learn Swiss German so you can be totally confused when trying to write (or read) the written (high german) language. Earlier in your post you were bemoaning the difficulties faced by Swiss-German speakers who become confused when having to write in High German but speak dialect. Your answer to this was that Swiss school kids should simply write in dialect. Why is this a dumb idea? Because there is no standardised way to write in dialect, and the dialects are so different. Look at the Romanisch area - they can't agree on which of their dialects should be the standard one, and they all reject the standardised version. Should Zurideutsch just become the standard so everyone else can hate it? Or perhaps everyone over in the French speaking part should have their high German lessons cancelled and just learn Zurideutsch? Think carefully about the implications of what you are saying...
Sad fact is that most young Swiss who are under 25 seem to write in dialect anyway, which is a sure-fire sign for me that they can't spell or write properly - the PISA study seems to back me up on that one.