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| Not only the young Swiss people do ...
Anyway, if I do write friends, I just prefer to use Swiss German. It's my monther tongue in the first place. I feel much more comfortable and "authentic" instead of "translating" it to high German. | |
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True, some of my (Swiss) husband's friends (in their 30s and early 40s) will send him emails written in Swiss German. He mentally translates them to high German, he can't stand to read it in dialect.
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| Are you sure about that? I've never heard of this rule (expect University). I never had a class in high German unless it was German. | |
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My husband tells me when he was in school this was the case. He's 36, so maybe things have changed? Although I cannot understand why education would be provided in a dialect, instead of (one of) the official language of the country.