[ILUG] Re: Languages (completely OT) was: Red Hat in Easons.

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Niall O Broin wrote:

> Indeed, and what is Schweitzer-Deutsch (or schweetser-douche, as
> it's pronounced)  but German with an (actually, one of many)
> accent, very many different spellings (some quite interestingly
> phonetic) 

"gruzi mittenand" is the one i remember, took me ages to figure out
why the heck people kept saying this whenever they walked into room.  
:)

phonetic: clock times are interesting, they add a "ey" to the end. eg 
"halbe siebeney".

> South, East and West, I never heard anything other than "merci" used as

> other word do you refer to ? (Unless perhaps viel Mals, pronounced awfully
> like fieldmouse, and meaning simply "many times"

that's the one... "merci viellemals" or something. but yes, just 
"merci" is a lot more common.

> - quite analogous to "Cead Mile Failte" except of course that in
> the Irish version, there's only one source language involved.)
> 
> And I don't mean pollution in a bad sense here - I actually love the sound
> of Swiss German - much more mellifluous than High German in any of its many

yes, it does sound much better than Hoche Deutsch. sort of 'singing' 
flavour to it.

> regional variations. And they use SuSE Linux a lot in both Germany and
> Switzerland (in a vain attempt to bring a little Linux in here, and to
> rekindle the distro wars :-) ).

well, the Swiss aren't perfect. :)

mind you, if it came to a distribution war, SuSe might do quite well 
if they got the swiss involved. RH/deb/etc.. with their paintball 
guns Vs SuSe and their Swiss rifle carrying contingent. 

:)

> Niall

regards,
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