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It was supposed to be a quick meeting… (lemmy.world)
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[–] 29 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Ever had a telephone call with a Swiss person?

"Grüüüüütziii Muuuuultipleeexer... Thiiiiiis iiiisss Johaaaaan speeeaaakiiiing, let's staaaart it sloooowly, will weeee?"

Sometimes, stereotypes are just true. ;-)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I used to work with a Swiss guy. Never experienced this.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Maybe depends on region.
    I had a tech project with a local ski equipment supplier, and he and my other contacts at his company all spoke in a heavy, really slow going dialect, just like from the movies.
    Also, they often tackled problems differently. Slower paced, but more deeply thinking about the next step to be taken.
    Collided somewhat with my more agile way of wild brainstorming and quickly start doing stuff...
    But that quite certainly might not be the case for more urban Zürich inhabitants, who probably are just totally annoyed by this stereotype. :-)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Maybe depends on region.

    In Switzerland the same stereotype is specifically about people from Berne.

    I recently had a Bernese guy on the phone who was super quick and when I didn't understand him (due to being in a datacenter room at the time) he apologized for being too fast haha.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Tbf I only worked with the one guy, so maybe my experience was the exception. Worked with plenty of Germans though, and they don’t seem to do this. Though the Swiss have many other linguistic influences obviously, so I wonder where they get it from.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I am German, so I may also have a different experience, based on the common base language the Swiss and I are speaking.
    Schwytzerdütsch seems to posses a tendency to use long vowels, and this also bleeds into Swiss people speaking "normal" German, which gives a very distinct stretched kind of pronunciation.
    This might have caused part of the stereotype.
    Might be that they are additionally often speaking extra slow on purpose when speaking German to a German, so that we have a better chance to understand what they are saying.

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