Your phrase "Dèvejâ in patê, lè betâ dou chèlà din cha vouê" is in patois gruyerien, but there you are in for something completely different!!!
Yes, OK, the youtube song uses some Basse-Ville from Fribourg expressions and glues them together in a song... You may find youngsters talking like that when they are with friends, just for fun, but this is not a commonly used way of expression in Fribourg.
... which is quite often, lately, isn't it!!!
The more official the wording, the more likely you are to get distributeur .
Guichet is used and familiar to me even without the automatique . To some extend, you may also have a difference Paris-Bigcities vs. countryside. Perhaps. I don't know for this word, this is just a general statement from me.
I wouldn't write guichet , though... call me a pedant French teacher, that would explain a lot.
Thanks to Marie-Thérèse Porchet, I learned that "panosse" is a serpillière, i.e. a floorcloth.
One thing I’ve noticed as I use a translation package on the PC for a lot of things is that the Swiss have quite a few words ending in “age” which mean absolutely nothing to the translator. Nor does it understand the word “gypserie”.
Great word that, no? BTW 'une patte' is a cloth or dishcloth, wherease in F. French it is a 'torchon'. 'Un linge' is a towel and in FF it is 'une serviette'. And 'une lavette' in Romand is a facecloth, and in FF 'un gant de toilette'.
Une lavette = une poule mouillée (wet chicken) too = a chicken or coward, lol.
And a funny Romande expression 'c'est un cousin du coté de la patte à relaver' = he is a distant cousin.
Isn't 'language' great, whichever it is.
RetiredInNH - those 'germanic Romand' words are fast disappearing too. We used 'poutzer', and also 'du Speck' (du lard/bacon), and 'un Spikre' (un cheval/horse) un Steckr (un baton/stick), and so many others, but they are rarely heard now. Also all the locals with German names used to be pronounced in the Germanic way when I was a child, but now they've all been 'franchisised'. So 'Bieler' was pronounced 'Billr' and now it is 'Bie-lair'- really funny for me.
NATEL is of course a "Swiss word" as it originally just was an expression of Swisscom for their mobile phone service. It has now become a general expression, and instead of being pissed, they should feel flattered
BANKOMAT is NOT a French word at all but a German/Swiss-German word as in French it would be "banqueaumate" so that "bancomat" looks like a Romandie version of the Bankomat.
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let's not forget the old Romand joke about "what does PTT mean ?" answer : Prendre le Travail Tranquille"
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Interesting is your thing about "Patte". The expression for sure is of French origin, was picked up in Switzerland by the army and got used as the "Pattà" which sounds ridiculous but apparently was "taken back" by the Romands.
Sure, but I was talking about what people use in conversation, not the offical terminology used by banks and other institutions. In the UK the almost universal term is "cashpoint", but you probably wouldn't find that on any official document either. Same, perhaps, with "ATM" in the US.
Yes. As long as it's not French!
*growl*
I live in Lausanne and if you go to Lyon, France (just two hours away) you can REALLY hear the different accent!
The swiss french also have some interesting (surreal) expressions like:
"Déçu en bien" (disappointed in a good way)
"Je te tiens les pouces" (I am holding your thumbs)
This comes from the Germanic tradition of holding one's thumbs for good luck (' Daumen drücken ').
There is an old skit by french humorists Coluche and Sylvie Joly making fun of swiss accent. You'll find a lot of the typical swiss expression/attitude here.
Video is in french of course.
In german it makes sense because of the way they use "dir".
In french it sounds a bit strange. More like "I am holding your thumbs".
Not to mention that Nil is braking the Quebec French Language law Merde
I don't know whether it is a Romandie-expression or also in use in France. I only heard it in the Romandie. The expression the "Pot-de-Vin" . I at first needed a moment till I got that it was the expression for what in German is Schmiergeld (lubricating money)
un pot-de-vin is a perfectly French word.
alright. But I found it the nicest expression for what it is I had heard in any language. Almost charming
when I studied French, my teacher is a French, what she said is that in wring, there is no big difference, but in expression, could be a lot
Same for different regions of France though. Expressions in Franche-Comté are similar to here in the Neuchatel Jura - but very different from Paris or Marseilles.
The expression is actually 'je ME tiens les pouces (implied 'pour toi' /for you).
To the trained ear, the Fribourg, Neuchatel, Valais, Vaud and Geneva accents are quite distinctive. Like the Northern accents of the UK - Scouse, Brom, Geordie and Black country are very distinctive - but all sound the same to someone from Surrey with rp (received pronunciation).