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| location | Seattle, WA | |
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| seen | Jan 29 '12 at 18:07 | |
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Earning a Master's degree in Comp Sci/Software Engr from the University of Washington.
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Jan 29 |
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Polite alternatives to “Grüß Gott”? Go south. When hiking in Bavaria, I greeted groups of passer-by with the Swiss "Grüezi Mitenand". It was amusing. |
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Jan 29 |
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Polite alternatives to “Grüß Gott”? Why is Grüß' Sie not very polite? |
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Jan 29 |
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Difference between Austrian and German I lived in Switzerland for a few years. In spoken dialects, I rarely heard (never?) the simple past. But when a Swiss would shift from dialect to High German, they would sometimes use the simple past (but not often). Here is my hypothesis on that: High German is primarily a written language in Switzerland. When the Swiss shift from a dialect into High German, they might be imagining how they would express themselves in writing. [Alt hypothesis: if northern Germans use the simple past more frequently than the Swiss when speaking, the Swiss could be imagining a northern speaker.] |
