[Magdalen] Enjoying a colleague's accent

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/19/2015 10:32:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
magdalen at herberthouse.org writes:

Maddy  (who is Swiss) went to the Swiss German border and a new Swiss 
border  
guard asked her a question. She looked at him and said "Wie   bitte".   He 
repeated it and she had to get the German  border  guard to translate 
between 
two  Swiss!!>>>>>
 
When I lived in Frankfurt/M, one of my dermatology professors and his
wife, who was a professor in the UM-Minneapolis German Department,
came by and we spent a nice evening chatting over dinner in my  favorite
restaurant which was located in a cave-like former brewery.
 
The two visitors had just come up to Hesse from Bavaria, and the
wife/German professor admitted that she had trouble following the  lingo
of some of the Bavarian natives.  The point is that the German  accent
common to Bavaria in Germany, as well as Austria and Switzerland is
difficult for those familiar with "standard" North German.
 
 
David Strang.