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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by barrydidit View Post
    Hmmm, people in Sheffield that nobody can understand... Are we sure they aren't just from Barnsley?


    Originally posted by stek View Post
    We were in CH last week and the Mrs (fluent in German) says to her the Swiss speak like they're trying to eradicate all vowels...
    Swiss German isn't a language. It's a throat disease.

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  • MrMarkyMark
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    FTFY
    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    It always amazes me when people go to Arab countries then moan, usually from their Midnight Express style cell, when they do things allowed in the UK but not allowed locally.

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    Receperacape lol!
    The coffee has not yet filtered through. I'll struggle with one language until it does...

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    I'd be doomed if receperacape action took place here. Or i'd learn quick sharp.
    Receperacape lol!

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  • scooterscot
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    I'd be doomed if reciprocal action took place here. Or i'd learn quick sharp.
    Last edited by scooterscot; 7 July 2016, 07:47.

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    I've done a few projects in Switzerland and I remember one where the contact guy was from Serbia and spoke good German and English. In the meeting were German Swiss and the other guys were from Ticino (Tessiner Swiss who speak a version of Italian) so the meeting had to be held in English as none of the Swiss could understand each other. When the Serb guy and me wanted to discuss something important without the others knowing what we were talking about, then Hoch Deutsch was used as none of them could understand that!
    We were in CH last week and the Mrs (fluent in German) says to her the Swiss speak like they're trying to eradicate all vowels...

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  • barrydidit
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    Hmmm, people in Sheffield that nobody can understand... Are we sure they aren't just from Barnsley?

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  • zeitghost
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    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post

    We're so lucky that English became the international language.
    Well we put a lot of effort into making it so.

    Despite the distressing tendency to speak septic in recent years.

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  • zeitghost
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    Someone from the next village is a foreigner - they talk funny.
    Oh, it's just like that around here.

    Must be the vaaaaalleeeeeeeeys.

    Or something.

    There's tidy then.

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  • VectraMan
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Assuming you're German, why wouldn't we understand? We had to sort your country out after Adolf's Adventures in Europe, 1936 to 1945.

    Btw, where did all the :nazi::nazi::nazi: dissappear to after 1945?

    Nein, nein, ve are Germanz! Not Nazi! :nazi::nazi::nazi:
    This makes me sad. Although most of us have evolved beyond thinking we're defined by our national identity, it's still hard not to feel a little embarrassed to be British when you read that sort of thing.
    Last edited by VectraMan; 7 July 2016, 07:30.

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