11-25-2007, 02:28 PM
Mmm-h, folks....
..that's probably why I didn't understand a lot of what Cap'n Caerk of Star Trek used to say --- clears up a lot, if I may say so ! Thanks a f*****g Lot ! :wink:
But, seriously, I think that every european country got such areas where you could easily establish "bootcamps for learning local dialects".
( ...and: yes there is a difference between what you learn at school/university as a foreign language and what people do speak on the streets ou there, and, the farther you leave the metropolitan areas, the more interesting it gets.)
Be asured: Stuff like bavarian dialects is more from the easier side of this, though.
Did you know that people from western intelligence services used local dialects to fool their eastern opponents when talking on the phone uncrypted ?? (Like the Americans used "Windtalkers" in WW 2, e.g. the Swiss used Alp-Öhis" or something like this for this pupose ?? :wink: )
I guess some swiss dialects at least let some eastern linguists working
for the KGB scratch their heads in embarrassement more than once. 8)
Interesting question: was the corkian dialect used for such purposes in the past ??
Greez
Simplex
..that's probably why I didn't understand a lot of what Cap'n Caerk of Star Trek used to say --- clears up a lot, if I may say so ! Thanks a f*****g Lot ! :wink:
But, seriously, I think that every european country got such areas where you could easily establish "bootcamps for learning local dialects".
( ...and: yes there is a difference between what you learn at school/university as a foreign language and what people do speak on the streets ou there, and, the farther you leave the metropolitan areas, the more interesting it gets.)
Be asured: Stuff like bavarian dialects is more from the easier side of this, though.
Did you know that people from western intelligence services used local dialects to fool their eastern opponents when talking on the phone uncrypted ?? (Like the Americans used "Windtalkers" in WW 2, e.g. the Swiss used Alp-Öhis" or something like this for this pupose ?? :wink: )
I guess some swiss dialects at least let some eastern linguists working
for the KGB scratch their heads in embarrassement more than once. 8)
Interesting question: was the corkian dialect used for such purposes in the past ??
Greez
Simplex
Siggi K.
