I don't like this country. The whole country is very off putting and weird.
>They are Nazis, but also mountain Jews >They don't have a language >They don't have a royal family >They don't have a real government >They use Franc instead of Mark >They are in the middle of nowhere with mountains and they should be poor like Armenia or Chechnya, but they are rich >They have a strong army, but they are neutral >They have Protestant Frogs and Catholic Krauts >They have no sea, but they have a colony
The whole country is like a bizzaro clown world to me, an anomaly. It should be divided and annexed by France, Italy and Germany.
We don't have colonies. Probably he refers to Liechtenstein
Kayden Cooper
Yeah even their flag has weird proportions
Blake Gomez
Liechtenstein
Alexander Green
Reverse colony of Kosovo
Hudson Gomez
rude
Ayden Gray
most based post since the inception of this website
Justin Gomez
Then do something about it.
Anthony Edwards
They can't even manage their country and end up coming here beggin for a job lmao
Alexander Ross
>They are Nazis, but also mountain Jews Ok? Did you know that Carl Lutz, a swiss diplomat in Budapest saved 62'000 hungarian jews (50% of all hungarian jews) from beeing killed
Matthew Richardson
a Swiss company is currently begging me to send in my CV they wrote me three mails because I didn't reply
Caleb Turner
wow you must be a celebrity sign me a autograph Mr Schnitzel
Cooper Powell
>Carl Lutz, a (((swiss diplomat in Budapest))) saved 62'000 hungarian jews (50% of all hungarian jews) from beeing killed
Working there but still live at the other side of the border kek Literal leeches
William Garcia
>They don't have a real government Explain pls
Charles Anderson
I don't need English to explain you how to clean a toilet beggar
Bentley Hill
based
Jaxon Thompson
I don't speak Switzerlandish. Which language will you use? Also it suffices if you clean it, you don't to explain anything as long as you clean it properly, but thankli
Jose Turner
They have a weird system of many little governments and referendums.
Angel Garcia
>>They are Nazis, but also mountain Jews Nothing wrong with it >>They don't have a language We do, it's called Swiss German >>They don't have a royal family Which is a good thing. Fuck monarchies anyway >>They don't have a real government Lel you retarded? >>They use Franc instead of Mark Because fuck Germany >>They are in the middle of nowhere with mountains and they should be poor like Armenia or Chechnya, but they are rich Because we are Jews, you said it yourself retard >>They have a strong army, but they are neutral To defend our neutrality >>They have Protestant Frogs and Catholic Krauts Agreed that this is bad thing. Christian Orthodoxy or Judaism are the only good religions >>They have no sea, but they have a colony Which one?
Juan Edwards
The EU
Adam Hall
what country?
Eli Barnes
Many Swiss have a big psychological problem speaking with Germans. Is Swiss my national language or is it only a dialect and I am unable to speak properly and must feel inferior?
Especially when Germans come from the North: I had a colleague from Hamburg, she understood nothing, really nothing, she even had problems with Swiss(German), when it was meant to be High German. Big problem for both on the psychological side, especially as the Swiss person was an eminently respectable professor in one to one lessons!
I know companies in Basel where everybody speaks English as a strict rule, also the Germans with the Swiss, to avoid these problems!!!!
There is a wonderful and very well-known Swiss TV-comedian, called Emil. When he started his career in Germany he thought he spoke High- German and tried hard to do so. We Germans always thought this is the real Swiss German, the broad funny sounding dialect and that this was his normal language. Infact this Swiss accent was a prominent part of his success.
I quickly tried the Bern dialect to avoid this nationality problem. They taught me two different: Bern-Stadt and Bern-Land. Everybody was increeeedibly thankful for my trials. You can’t imagine how much, open arms everywhere and big big smiles and great sympathy. My first steps were: to order coffee saying I want a bowl, (eine Schale) and you really get a big one like for a small salad, learnt that Butter (butter) is called Anker (anchor), I stopped pronouncing the letter “l” and replaced it with “u”, (really funny “game”), replaced all endings nd and said ng instead…., it was quite easy. I was really good at that time and Swiss German felt like a foreign language. My biggest success was when I spoke Bern-German to a Swiss in the train, and he asked me “vo welläm chanton chömmet ihr?” Which canton do you come from? I avoided an answer ;-) not to embarrass him.
Owen Stewart
Yes, it feels like a different language, but, no, it isn’t. I don’t succeed to learn dialects now in Germany near the Swiss border. They are all too near and similar that I can’t get this feeling of switching to something different. Bern German has a strong different melody so I learnt it like a foreign language.
Never try to learn German with dialect speakers, or you have to learn two languages.
Jack Lopez
Linguistically it’s called a diglossia, German: Diglossie.
This means a language which has been developed over time to sound like a different one, but isn’t. There are dialects within Switzerland, southern Germany and Austria, the standard German is considered the one in the north. That’s why northern Germans have a hard time with dialects from the south.
Some words on why Swiss Germans aren’t so keen on speaking High German - In the generation who grew up with the beginnings of TV, High German was exclusively spoken at school, meaning it was always connected with grades and being judged. This didn’t really encourage people to like speaking. Plus Germans usually smile when they hear us talk. If you see this smile as the same smile your teacher has given you when you read or said something, you feel belitteled. Kids nowadays are more used to High German by watching German TV. Their pronunciation is way better. I always call my Swiss way of speaking High German “my Helvetic” (mein Helvetisch). Although I had two semesters of “Sprecherziehung” at university, I prefer my Helvetic because it’s me.
When I speak my Helvetic, my self-image is good, because I focus on people’s reactions to the content of what I say, not on their reaction on my dialect.
Carson Taylor
>Christian Orthodoxy or Judaism are the only good religions Found the Serb.
Julian Hernandez
Yeah but it seems nice, and the few Swiss I've talked to are nice
Daniel Young
We have the only real government
Leo Lopez
nice
Leo Diaz
Using the Franc is still weird Call it the swiss or something
Samuel Miller
We have a German in full autist mode.
John Perez
>Many Swiss have a big psychological problem speaking with Germans. That's nice projecting there but the reality is that Germans feel embarassed to speak Swiss German even if they have no trouble with it while we don't give a fuck about how bad our Standard German sounds and even deliberately reinforce the Swiss accent.