I thought that was what they call here a 'Hellraumprojektor' - one of those these where you put 'Folien' onto a flat screen it and draw pretty pictures to show what you are talking about - well I did.

Let's drop this and get back on topic before some horrible Mod comes and deletes it all.

sentances instead of "sentences"

Overhead projectors are what teachers used to use when they didn't fully understand how to teach a subject even if they understood it.
They could waste time with drawing meaningless scribbles.
Anything they said went, "Over the head" of the pupils.

Hence the term, "Overhead projector".

OK so I thought you were asking to borrow a BMW too..

When I first arrived I was told I should go to visit the zoo as they have some new beers...after wondering why the beer was better at the zoo than anywhere else in Zurich I realised it was the bears that were new not the beer!

(still have no idea if they beer there or not).

how about can you "itch me" instead "scratch" used when someone has an itch

I've had a few doctors hand me a "recipe" for medicine at the pharmacy.

We had the same when being shown around Bern. It was only when the guy said that "the beers will have a new enclosure soon" that we realised. Incidentally, the beers made at the bears in Bern are worth a try.

My daughter calls milk, blog.

She knows that milk is milk but always calls it blog. Wont budge on it. Its been a word in our house for the past 3 years.

hehe - as a young boy i always called milk 'cchhh' with a strong, hard zurich gutteral sound. I think it had more to do with not liking it, rather than preempting my destiny of living here.

Would a milkman be a blogger?

I have once been advised to write a recommended letter (registered letter)

Not quite what you mean, but have you noticed how many German speakers all make the same mistakes in English? My favorite: "In the meanwhile...". Yeah right.

I hate 'learnings' and had assumed it was merely a mistake made by German speakers. This morning though we had a corporate email including a quote from an Australian . . . she used the word 'learnings' too. Is this actually acceptable English in Australia?

Right up there with "informations" and "peoples". They teach English English here in CH now, previous generations were taught US-English, I guess neither involved any kind of study of plurals.

My son is growing up bilingual (French-English), and he freely adapts English words and grammr to his French sentences. Sometimes the results are quite funny:

- J'ai missé toi (I missed you/Tu m'as manqué)
- J'ai losé mon jouet (I lost my toy/j'ai perdu mon jouet)

He also pronounces 'hamburger' with a strong guttural 'rrr' sound at the beginning, something like 'ramburger'

Mobile (telephone) = "Handy"

Swiss version better in my opinion. I find it amusing/sweet that the Swiss I know use the term (when speaking English) thinking that this is what we call them in English too.

I thought 'Handy' was German German. In Switzerland people say 'Natel'.

embarrassed = pregnant

It not so much that it isn't the correct plural.

It's that there's no such thing as 'a learning'. It's the present participle of 'to learn', not a noun.

More of a concept like knowledge, uncountable.

My favorite:

"In parallel to eating, we can discuss over this topic"