Hahahahaha, the idiots at the SVP really shot themselves on their feet!
> Lukas Reimann of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party had launched a parliamentary motion urging colleagues to save and value Swiss German, which he believes is a symbol of the identity and diversity of the Alpine country.
But it totally backfired, and Swiss German ended up being banned after someone decided to make a speech in Walser:
> To prove this point, Philip Bregy launched into a speech in the Swiss German dialect from the upper Valais region: “We wouldn’t be able to function. We need a common language. The French-speaking region has their local patois, but they speak in French.”
Make it nation wide please
Imagine this debate for the parliamentarians that only speaks French and/or Italian.
So the German language continues to dominate multilingual Switzerland. I wonder how the Swiss-French and Swiss-Italians thinks of this.
You are free to speak Swiss German in your house with your families.
A government office has to be understandable.
Hmm, why “forbid”. It was never allowed in the first place, right?
ban the french “language” nationwide
Is our parlament, or at least some of them, nuts? They have a job to do and aren‘t paid to behave nationalistic! Good it got dumped! We have four languages and this attempt was very undemocratic.
Part of the problem is that there is no one single Swiss German. It is a family of dialects, with each region having its own variant on it. If we want to have Swiss German in official government contexts, we would first need to decide which dialect is the “official” one. Good luck getting agreement on that.
Click bait title, if you ask me. No one spoke swiss German. The vote was whether to allow it and the proposal was defeated. No change therefore.
I wonder whether the supporters are just unable to speak high German.
> Swiss German – a collection of local dialects – is spoken by people in the German-speaking part of the country.
I think we usually we do call Swiss German a language, not just “dialects”. Also if it was just dialects, maybe there wouldn’t be an [entire wikipedia](https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Houptsyte) written in it.
But it’s really funny to see it characterised that way after another attempt by the SVP to manufacture fake pride for something swiss. They’ll end up tainting everything we are, if we let them.
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Hahahahaha, the idiots at the SVP really shot themselves on their feet!
> Lukas Reimann of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party had launched a parliamentary motion urging colleagues to save and value Swiss German, which he believes is a symbol of the identity and diversity of the Alpine country.
But it totally backfired, and Swiss German ended up being banned after someone decided to make a speech in Walser:
> To prove this point, Philip Bregy launched into a speech in the Swiss German dialect from the upper Valais region: “We wouldn’t be able to function. We need a common language. The French-speaking region has their local patois, but they speak in French.”
Make it nation wide please
Imagine this debate for the parliamentarians that only speaks French and/or Italian.
So the German language continues to dominate multilingual Switzerland. I wonder how the Swiss-French and Swiss-Italians thinks of this.
You are free to speak Swiss German in your house with your families.
A government office has to be understandable.
Hmm, why “forbid”. It was never allowed in the first place, right?
ban the french “language” nationwide
Is our parlament, or at least some of them, nuts? They have a job to do and aren‘t paid to behave nationalistic! Good it got dumped! We have four languages and this attempt was very undemocratic.
Part of the problem is that there is no one single Swiss German. It is a family of dialects, with each region having its own variant on it. If we want to have Swiss German in official government contexts, we would first need to decide which dialect is the “official” one. Good luck getting agreement on that.
Click bait title, if you ask me. No one spoke swiss German. The vote was whether to allow it and the proposal was defeated. No change therefore.
I wonder whether the supporters are just unable to speak high German.
> Swiss German – a collection of local dialects – is spoken by people in the German-speaking part of the country.
I think we usually we do call Swiss German a language, not just “dialects”. Also if it was just dialects, maybe there wouldn’t be an [entire wikipedia](https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Houptsyte) written in it.
But it’s really funny to see it characterised that way after another attempt by the SVP to manufacture fake pride for something swiss. They’ll end up tainting everything we are, if we let them.
Farming some dumb outrage?