Each language has its own idiosyncrasies that reveal more or less accurate indicator of the mentality of people who speak them. Similarly, with the dialect. The cozy, quaint-looking little singsong Berners one (take the love Sämu - Federal - Schmid conjecture as an example), for instance, suggests that this is one of harmony and satisfaction thoughtful fellow. Better to have too much say yes and it can just hang the house blessing. Or the rough, I totally incomprehensible and ear pain caused Valais polarized leads to inevitable assumption that the counterpart is a passionate hunter, eagerly participated in the extermination of endangered species and the last wild wolf was killed.
But I will not actually reports. My attention was recently increased on the second of the two significant features of Swiss German. After
now already has missed the last one behind comedian from Germany on the slopes of the Swiss diminutive, this should be known in this country, which seems to be no impetus to put in it and enjoys particularly in the trendy districts of the 30 Popper on the rage.
The second oddity is not directly in the expression of the language, but rather in their use as Identity-expression. I am talking about individuals, events, facts, events, opinions, or whatever, from the bondage of the individual, individual to push on the shaft of the universal and plurals.
If for example, a school student finished, brings notabene what a remarkable achievement, Federal and to be itself ("there is joy!") by simple-minded language and truly simplified guidelines is politicized in the hearts of sheep, is spoken in the same general line of "EuSEM Ogi.
But wait - now thinks the gentle reader - the love Ogi is not our Ogi 'and certainly not my Ogi' but simply a Ogi 'and how it should be simply left. But it is precisely for such generalizations is offering Swiss German. It is generally of 'we' occurs when talking about the favorite ice hockey team in action. Although There is the plural of hockey team - ie hockey teams, but because it is ultimately the preferred team is and this occurs only in the singular, are seen as Singularetantum - but is then suddenly seduced by excessive desire to identify, pluralistic, we '.
may For some, now to be splitting hairs, and also pseudo-intellectual drivel, but who regularly reads the newspaper is about not worrying about such things upside down, because the fact that inconsistently only so positively perceived events are pluralized, an impetus for consideration whether Switzerland in an identity crisis there ...
... oh what! Humbug! Finally, we are Töffweltmeister! ..
... had someone read the headline: "We are unemployed?
