And Swiss German(s)...
I remember one time in a restaurant in the German speaking part of the Valais (Wallis) a bilingual mountainous canton in southern Switzerland.
A Swiss German guy at the next table is try to order.
Ich moechte Roesti (traditional Swiss dish of shredded potatos, baked in a clay container, sometimes other stuff added) Was moechten Sie? Roesti Was? Roesti!
this went on for a while till the waiter suddenly said 'aaah Roesti.' The Swiss Germans don't even understand each other sometimes, every damn valley has its own dialect. It's why the Swiss French complain that it is no use bothering to learn German, only the educated actually speak it and even they don't do so amongst themselves.
God I hate Dialekt (that and handwritten old German script. Completely illegible. Different alphabet basically where every letter looks the same in cursive, a good reason to stick to post WWII history)
And Sütterlin ... ooh, that's just not right... Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
There is one valley in the French part of Valois/Wallis inhabited by people with some mongoloid traits (especially eyes). The mythology has them as a marauding Hungarian tribe who decided to settle there, or alternatively, Huns a few centuries earlier. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
