Re: Natural Language Praised


Joachim Pense wrote:
> leuwarden@xxxxxxxxx:
>
> >

> > I see. My background is Swiss German; I believe that dialect is
> > degenerating in several ways because of TV, English, absence of printed
> > text. Compared to English, Swiss German has become a skeleton. This is
> > where my ideas of "alive" vs "dead" come from.
>
> My idea what will happen to Swiss German is that it will not disappear,
> maybe even acquire official language status at some time.

I thought it was already disappearing. All the incoming information is
High German or English.

In the past, people spoke the language they heard at home from their
family and neighbours.

Now, people speak the language they get from the media. So what is the
future of a dialect?

Are you Swiss?

> But it will
> develop into a common Zürichdeutsch,

:-D

It would be Bernese. Züridütsch is awful, really, though not as bad
as Basledütsch

> and it's the other dialects will
> dissappear (Except Basel-Stadt, of course).
>
> Joachim

long live the Basler Fasnacht and "die Stadt, die genannt ward "die
Bunte Kuh".

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