Re: Austrian/German "thanks"?

Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:42:39 +0200, Rodlox <Rodlox@...> wrote:
>
> > are words such as /danke/ more German or Austrian or some other region?
>
> I guess standard German uses _danke_ in all regions. In more dialectal
> varieties, the word _dankschön_ may be common in certain regions. In Swiss
> dialects, the French loan _merci_ is more common (at least in Western Swiss
> German), pronounced /'mers:i/, though you didn't ask about Switzerland. I
> doubt that Swiss people would use _merci_ in Swiss standard German.
I'd not presume to know exactly where to draw the line between Swiss Standard
German and very watered-down dialect, but I've heard _merci_ in variants I can
with little trouble understand.

                                                        Andreas