Re: Intergermansk

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:19:13 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

>Assuming you mean Swiss vs. Standard German, I'm somewhat surprised.  I
>know there are some huge differences, but I thought they were still
>mutually intelligible.
Well, I'd say it's borderline. Some of it is still understandable, but not
too much. To name another "dialect": Bavarian is far worse there, as it is
so totally different from High German (much more so thatn Swiss German) that
it is totally incomprehensible to a High German speaker, so I'd say it's
rather a language of its own than a "dialect".

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