Re: life in Switzerland, Too much for one lifetime? :-) [message #404800] |
Tue, 26 January 2021 23:27 |
John Levine
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In article <87bldbcamo.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>,
Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
> No. My mistake mentioning Switzerland. Although I don't know if they can
> withstand a "real" country surrounding them once Europe becomes one
> country, making them an enclave.
They have a web of treaties with the EU, including being part of the
Schengen free travel zone. They'll be fine.
> Funny btw. that there is one German town completely surrounded by
> Switzerland called Büsingen
Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave within Switzerland. It was part
of the Swiss customs territory until a year ago when it was switched to
Italy against the wishes of the residents.
> I suppose written German German and Austrian German is the same. Swiss
> German uses "ss" instead of "ß" in Germany. Thus there are only slight
> differences in documents. But speaking and understanding is an entirely
> different thing: People from northern Germany might have problems
> understanding Swiss people. But they already have problems understanding
> people from Bavaria, which is in Germany.
Formal Austrian and German German are pretty close. I gather than everyone
learns formal Hochdeutsch in school, which they can use to talk to people
with otherwise impenetrable dialects.
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