Question for Swiss expats

[DodgyAgent]

Pretentious tit

He is Bazil and he is from Barcelona

[sasguru]

Shoosh please, sas is educating us whilst telling us about his latest £200K job offer.

Not something you'd ever be able to do, eh?

Its not an offer, but I would have a more than good chance of getting it, if I went for it.

All things considered though, our gross household income is higher in London.

[suityou01]

Not something you'd ever be able to do, eh?

Its not an offer, but I would have a more than good chance of getting it, if I went for it.

All things considered though, our gross household income is higher in London.

<kicks off slippers and curls up on the sofa with iPad >

Where is it you live in London again SAS?

[Sysman]

My partner worked there and she and almost everyone in the office spoke either German or Swiss German and pronounced it as Bayzel!

Must work with Yanks then.

In Swiss German oder Hochdeutsch I hear Barzel.

[sasguru]

<kicks off slippers and curls up on the sofa with iPad >

Where is it you live in London again SAS?

What's it to you thick boy.
London dormitory borough of Surrey.

[Sysman]

Pretentious tit

The English have the unfortunate way of using French when it is not applicable to certain bits of Switzerland.

E.g. Berne rather than Bern.

Try finding a job in Bern without having fluent German or promising to learn it and see how far it gets you.

[sasguru]

Try finding a job in Bern without having fluent German or promising to learn it and see how far it gets you.

Suity is off to Germany soon. I only wish I was there to see him fawning and gurning when they call him an "island monkey", without him knowing.

[stek]

Must work with Yanks then.

In Swiss German oder Hochdeutsch I hear Barzel.

No, Swiss co with Swiss employees - think they used High German more to help her, since she speaks that. When she worked in Hamburg they did Platzdeutsch on her to confuse her poor lass!

She speaks near native English, even understands my Bolton accent, but can't follow Scousers and one guy when we lived in Scotland, he was from Wigan but had a pure Scots accent to me. To her he had a crazy mash of Scots and my accent and she couldn't follow it at all.

Crazy the nuances you pick up in accents without knowing - cos her first time in a native speaking English country was in Scotland (six months) now every one says she has a Scots accent which I can't hear at all. Weird.

Anyway, Swiss German, how weird is that!!??

[stek]

Suity is off to Germany soon. I only wish I was there to see him fawning and gurning when they call him an "island monkey", without him knowing.

Der Inselaffe! My partners boss in Germany used to call her black friend 'Der Affe' and he wasn't at all racist by German standards....

[sasguru]

Anyway, Swiss German, how weird is that!!??

When I was in Basle in the 90s, a German (Prussian) friend came to visit. He said Swiss Deutch sounded like the sort of German you talked to babies in Germany.
"Kruterhusli, Shichterdeli"