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27. She could still be right

Thu Nov 26, 2015, 02:32 AM

Nov 2015

Germany wasn't even a country before 1871, and the Swiss confederation wasn't really solidified until 1850. Before that, there was a map full of smaller Kantons, Bishoprics, Duchies, Principalities and kingdoms. The German they speak in the Swiss Kantons is so different from the versions spoken in what is now Germany and Austria that Swiss German TV programs need to be subtitled. By now, I am so used to it, that I understand the "Mundart" of several of the bigger Swiss Kantons, but get up into the mountains of Uri or Appenzell, and it might as well be Kiswahili for all I can understand.

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