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Do you technically know more than one flavour of German (e.g. switzerdeutsch vs. High German)? Are they much different in terms of practical day-to-day speaking
by otoburb 9y ago
Do you technically know more than one flavour of German (e.g. switzerdeutsch vs. High German)? Are they much different in terms of practical day-to-day speaking to allow for different thought patterns?
- anarazel 9y agoI used to be able to speak schweizerdeutsch, but unlearned speaking it sometime in my youth due to disuse. I can't remember switching to it in my head, but it might just have been my age. I definitely do a fair amount of thinking in English (not when cooking and cleaning ;)).
- lordnacho 9y agoThey certainly sound different. You'll easily find a German in Switzerland who will tell you they don't understand it. From what I can tell they aren't all that different structurally and in term of vocabulary though.
- yorwba 9y agoInterestingly, Swiss German might not be context-free: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~shieber/Biblio/Papers/shieber85.pdf http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~shieber/Biblio/Papers/shieber85...