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a Swiss romand friend tells me about how he spent an entire year in Québec with everyone responding to him in English because they didn't recognize the accent he had in French!

he was very disappointed.

by zoe on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 06:26:35 PM EST
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Re: Indeed (none / 0)

mais lais Suiisseh n'onnt paas d'aacceneh

(ok, not really sure how to represent a Swiss accent in writing)

by MarekNYC on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 06:29:35 PM EST
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That worked fine ;-) (none / 0)

but maybe that's because I'm already familiar with the accent, having spent a lot of holidays as a kid in Valais.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 16th, 2008 at 05:17:27 AM EST
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