Re: Plausibility Check

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Franz Gnaedinger wrote:

The numbers 20,000 and 200,000, when pronounced
in my dialect, are sounding rather similar. One tenth of

Swiss radio broadcasts in Swiss dialect?

Yes, almost exclusively. Only the news might be spoken in standard
german.

That's surprising.

Even TV has lots of dialect content. On http://www.sf.tv/ you can
watch the three main news programmes of SF DRS as realplay streams.
"Schweiz aktuell" is almost complete in dialect, "10vor10" is mostly
standard german and only the "Tagesschau" is almost complete broadcast
in standard german.

What are
the words that are much less different that "zwanzig tausend" and "zwei
hundert tausend"?

That would be of interest to me too which swiss german dialect this
should be. In mine (Grisons, Chur) they are as distinct as in standard
german.

Bye
Patric
.

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