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Dec 10, 2006 21:39

Somebody asked me recently about "Swiss German". Well, there are as many Swiss dialects out there as there are villages, I guess. Many difficult to understand, even for Swiss ( Read more... )

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silmerin December 10 2006, 23:27:47 UTC
Wow, I liked that! I'm definitely going to see if I can acquire some of this Patent Ochsner. I'm a big fan of foreign music . . . your dialect sounds very cool (coming from someone who speaks no German).

Thank you!

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erestor December 10 2006, 23:36:11 UTC
Yay! Glad you liked them! :-)

This is - in my opinion - best song they ever made. The video is not Patent Ochsner, just some random people who went to a music festival, but the song is fantastic. :)

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erunyauve_e December 11 2006, 05:15:51 UTC
that's Swiss hip-hop, in MY dialect. Erestor lingo, yo! :-D Black Tiger and MC Rony

Not to mention the well-known Swiss beaches... . I tend to prefer my hip-hop in other languages, however (that way, I don't know if it's horribly misogynistic and homophobic, though I presume that if these guys are friends, it's probably not). Of course, I wouldn't know the difference between Swiss German and German German.

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blue_blue December 11 2006, 15:03:51 UTC
Oh yes, this is definetely different from Deutchland-German... it fact it sounded very far from it! I must admit i had quite a few difficulties with getting many of the words, but I could make out many basic differences in the prononciation from the German-German I learned at school. Most notified was a broad ae (æ) sound where I suppose German-German has ä or e or eu?

I think your language sounds quite pretty. :)

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lostwiginity December 17 2006, 23:56:28 UTC
The fact that I don't understand the Swiss accent while the people from Switzerland do understand me makes me feel very stupid and ignorant.

I hate my own accent. Did you by any chance see the German dub of "Casino Royale"? Because there's an Austrian playing the Casino's croupier in the original, and he's dubbing himself. Everyone in the cinema blushed and turned away whenever the croupier talked, thinking "OMG, that's what I talk like!".

mind you, I don't talk like Arnold Schwarzenegger! That guy can speak neither English nor German. xD

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