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20.11.2015, 10:17
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God, I hate saying that word.
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20.11.2015, 10:23
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Don't then
What does it mean, anyway? Is it what Swiss German magicians say?
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20.11.2015, 10:26
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| Quote: | |  | | | Don't then
What does it mean, anyway? Is it what Swiss German magicians say? | | | | | It's "expensive" in Swiss German. Belongs to one's daily vocabulary, I'm afraid.
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20.11.2015, 10:29
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| | | Re: Tdüüüüürrrrr
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What does it mean, anyway? Is it what Swiss German magicians say? | | | | | Maybe she meant ztüür (too expensive), the ritual incantation some bankers and business managers are reciting while rubbing their hands and walking in circles.
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20.11.2015, 10:32
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Nah, she means Henry VIII and co.
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20.11.2015, 10:38
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Sounds like something my 2 year old says when he bursts into the room dressed as Spiderman
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20.11.2015, 10:40
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Just for the German learners in here (and clueless francophiles...): the actual term is "zu teuer", but as everything else in Zueri do you need to try to pronounce it the way you'd do when somebody stabs your eyes with a chili...
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20.11.2015, 10:42
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| Quote: | | | | | Just for the German learners in here (and clueless francophiles...): the actual term is "zu teuer", but as everything else in Zueri do you need to try to pronounce it the way you'd do when somebody stabs your eyes with a chili... | | | | | Ha ha. Actually, I meant "teuer". In my area, if you want to say "too expensive", it's "tssstdüüüürrrr."
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20.11.2015, 11:03
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This is one of those words that could be the basis of a schwiizerdütsch Laurel and Hardy skit.
out to dinner:
OH: wetsch gärn s'schnappsli?
Me: aber s'isch twoer, gau?
OH: nei!, s'isch 'tdüürr'!
Me: ja, toar?!
OH: 'tdüüürr'!
Me: klar! tooher!
OH: Nei!! s'isch 'tdüüüür! üüü, üüü, üüüürr! tdüüüürrr!
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20.11.2015, 14:05
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Some actual swiss German 
Taardadaa?
Jadataarda.
Dadadataar 
Translation?
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20.11.2015, 14:07
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| Quote: | | | | | Some actual swiss German
Taardadaa?
Jadataarda.
Dadadataar
Translation? | | | | | Is he allowed to do that?
Yes, he is allowed to do that.
How shocking that he is allowed to do that.
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20.11.2015, 14:20
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| Quote: | | | | | Is he allowed to do that?
Yes, he is allowed to do that.
How shocking that he is allowed to do that. | | | | | Kudos
(though the text is on grammatically neutral subject, e.g. on a Mädchen or on a Hündchen)
Almost word-for-word translation to Standard German (additions in brackets):
Darf das (Mädchen) das tun?
Ja das (oder "es" als Pronomen für das Mädchen) darf das (tun).
(schockierend, überraschend, ...) Dass es das (tun) darf...
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20.11.2015, 18:37
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| | | Re: Tdüüüüürrrrr
Blitzt's z' Züri au so vill wiä z' Sanggale?
That's actually four "ts" sounds in a row. Practically impossible in any other language I know (and that's quite a few).
Translation: Are there as many lightning bolts in Zurich as in St. Gallen?
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20.11.2015, 18:39
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| Quote: | | | | | Tdüüüüürrrrr | | | | | | Quote: | | | | | It's "expensive" in Swiss German. | | | | | Same as in Yorkshire, then.
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20.11.2015, 19:15
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how would you say "the door is expensive" ?
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20.11.2015, 19:49
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| Quote: | | | | | how would you say "the door is expensive" ? | | | | | Depending on the dialect (duh) something like " D' Tüür isch tüür" (that's what you were waiting for, right?), " D' Töör isch tüür" (no fun) or " D' Türe-n-isch tüür" (even less so). Oberwallis: " Z Gitschini het om Gfurna prungo."
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21.11.2015, 00:14
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| Quote: | | | | | Oberwallis: "Z Gitschini het om Gfurna prungo." | | | | | Now you're just bragging.
Gang düre in dr tüüüre tüüre.
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21.11.2015, 00:57
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Gang dür di tüür Tüüre düre (Walk through the expensive door).
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21.11.2015, 09:25
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As a B1 learner -  
Only in CH does the international language scale go to D2 - fluent in multiple local dialects with all grammar optional, half the words removed, the other half joined together and random spelling added.
Or maybe also for scouse.
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21.11.2015, 15:29
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| Quote: | | | | | As a B1 learner -
Only in CH does the international language scale go to D2 - fluent in multiple local dialects with all grammar optional, half the words removed, the other half joined together and random spelling added.
Or maybe also for scouse. | | | | | D99 once you understand Wallisertitsch!
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