Comments on: Not All Switzerland Speaks German, Dammit! http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/ More than just a blog. Fri, 16 May 2008 02:44:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) » Diigo — I Think I Like the Idea (Bonus Content: Conversation Fragmentation) http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-397854 Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) » Diigo — I Think I Like the Idea (Bonus Content: Conversation Fragmentation) Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:08:31 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-397854 <p>[...] (Note the “tasteful” German-language ad — because I’m in Switzerland, I speak German, of course (not).) [...]</p> […] (Note the “tasteful” German-language ad — because I’m in Switzerland, I speak German, of course (not).) […]

]]> By: eBay Switzerland levels auction insertion fees : TameBay http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-382404 eBay Switzerland levels auction insertion fees : TameBay Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:07:14 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-382404 <p>[...] 27% of the Swiss population doesn’t have German for a first language, and non-German speakers would often prefer English if they can’t have their own language. eBay have managed dual-language sites in Belgium and Canada, so why they can’t do the same [...]</p> […] 27% of the Swiss population doesn’t have German for a first language, and non-German speakers would often prefer English if they can’t have their own language. eBay have managed dual-language sites in Belgium and Canada, so why they can’t do the same […]

]]> By: arnaud http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-244198 arnaud Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:49:17 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-244198 <p>My previous comment was inaccurate, I'm sorry for having posted without diagnosis enough.</p> <p>In fact, I was not speaking of a new behaviour, I was just mentionning cookie problems which unset my language preference.</p> <p>Anyway, getting french for a guy from France is probably more appropriate than getting german for an internaut from Switzerland.</p> <p>Sorry for my previous complaint :-)</p> My previous comment was inaccurate, I’m sorry for having posted without diagnosis enough.

In fact, I was not speaking of a new behaviour, I was just mentionning cookie problems which unset my language preference.

Anyway, getting french for a guy from France is probably more appropriate than getting german for an internaut from Switzerland.

Sorry for my previous complaint :-)

]]> By: arnaud http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-230223 arnaud Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:04:06 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-230223 <p>And what about last.fm from today ?</p> <p>... I get the website in french instead of english which irritates me much.</p> <p>Perhaps and unfortunately you may have it in german :(</p> And what about last.fm from today ?

… I get the website in french instead of english which irritates me much.

Perhaps and unfortunately you may have it in german :(

]]> By: marcel bernet http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-151347 marcel bernet Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:17:13 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-151347 <p>helllo stephanie, i set up an english version of the blogcamp-bernetblog-survey, see <a href="http://bernetblog.ch/2007/03/26/blogcamp3-jetzt-umfrage-auch-in-englisch/" rel="nofollow">http://bernetblog.ch/2007/03/26/blogcamp3-jetzt-umfrage-auch-in-englisch/</a> and at the same time apologies that my focus is on german - at least for our blog. but i might be switching more often...</p> helllo stephanie, i set up an english version of the blogcamp-bernetblog-survey, see http://bernetblog.ch/2007/03/26/blogcamp3-jetzt-umfrage-auch-in-englisch/
and at the same time apologies that my focus is on german - at least for our blog. but i might be switching more often…

]]> By: Maira Carvalho http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-150947 Maira Carvalho Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:49:12 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-150947 <p>eBay for me is also a pain... Not only it defaults to German, as it simply doesn't have the French interface. Or at least I haven't been able to find it, as the instructions would be in German. And whoever writes the descriptions, does so in German as well. Once I bought an ADSL modem hoping it would not be broken, as I couldn't tell as much from reading the description.</p> eBay for me is also a pain… Not only it defaults to German, as it simply doesn’t have the French interface. Or at least I haven’t been able to find it, as the instructions would be in German. And whoever writes the descriptions, does so in German as well. Once I bought an ADSL modem hoping it would not be broken, as I couldn’t tell as much from reading the description.

]]> By: Marc Melliger http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-150512 Marc Melliger Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:38:00 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-150512 <p>You are probably right. As I live in Zurich (attended at blogcamp, too) I've never had this sort of problems but I must admit that it would look quite strange if all those Interfaces "étaient en français". (Altough I speak and understand French quite well and I think it's a beautiful language)</p> You are probably right. As I live in Zurich (attended at blogcamp, too) I’ve never had this sort of problems but I must admit that it would look quite strange if all those Interfaces “étaient en français”. (Altough I speak and understand French quite well and I think it’s a beautiful language)

]]> By: nyokk http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-150023 nyokk Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:49:12 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-150023 <p>a standardized language is so much easier</p> a standardized language is so much easier

]]> By: leo http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-148047 leo Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:13:20 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-148047 <p>It's even hard to explain the Asians and Aussis that nobody on the world speaks "Swiss". But after some time I get used with it, it may be hard to understand for them that a country with 7 mio. people (in a lot bigger Asian citys live more people than that) speaks 4 language.</p> It’s even hard to explain the Asians and Aussis that nobody on the world speaks “Swiss”. But after some time I get used with it, it may be hard to understand for them that a country with 7 mio. people (in a lot bigger Asian citys live more people than that) speaks 4 language.

]]> By: Multilingual Proposals (Reboot, BlogCamp) at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-147846 Multilingual Proposals (Reboot, BlogCamp) at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:20:26 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-147846 <p>[...] Those of you who know me won’t be very surprised to learn that it’s about multilingualism online. By “multilingualism” online, I’m not only talking about localisation or stupid default languages, but mainly about what happens when one wants to get off the various monolingual islands out there and use more than one language in one place, for example. How can we help multiple languages coexist in a given space or community, as they do at times in the offline world? Can the tools we have help make this easier? [...]</p> […] Those of you who know me won’t be very surprised to learn that it’s about multilingualism online. By “multilingualism” online, I’m not only talking about localisation or stupid default languages, but mainly about what happens when one wants to get off the various monolingual islands out there and use more than one language in one place, for example. How can we help multiple languages coexist in a given space or community, as they do at times in the offline world? Can the tools we have help make this easier? […]

]]> By: Stephanie http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-147703 Stephanie Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:50:26 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-147703 <p>Manual trackback: <a href="http://www.davidroessli.com/logs/2007/03/swiss_french_speak_french/" rel="nofollow">http://www.davidroessli.com/logs/2007/03/swiss_french_speak_french/</a></p> Manual trackback: http://www.davidroessli.com/logs/2007/03/swiss_french_speak_french/

]]> By: Lyne http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-145005 Lyne Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:30:05 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-145005 <p>I sooo agree with you. It drives me nuts. I can't use Paypal or eBay because I don't understand German well enough. It's so frustrating. I live near Lausanne and speak French and English, but I hate German. What can we do to force these big companies to listen to us ?</p> I sooo agree with you. It drives me nuts. I can’t use Paypal or eBay because I don’t understand German well enough. It’s so frustrating. I live near Lausanne and speak French and English, but I hate German. What can we do to force these big companies to listen to us ?

]]> By: Marco Cortesi http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-144511 Marco Cortesi Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:14:49 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-144511 <p>I agree too... :-(</p> I agree too… :-(

]]> By: Mark Jaroski http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-144450 Mark Jaroski Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:07:51 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-144450 <p>Modifoo, That's really funny. The thing is that as an anglophone I get the same feeling in Holland. I always think that in a couple of minutes it'll kick in and I'll just start understanding them. Of course it never happens.</p> <p>Meanwhile, it appears that <a href="http://jyte.com/cl/country-and-language-should-always-be-seperate-preferences-on-websites" rel="nofollow">Jyte users agree unanimously</a>. I suppose I should have linked to your blog post on the subject rather than mine. But of course that one does lead back here. -mark</p> Modifoo, That’s really funny. The thing is that as an anglophone I get the same feeling in Holland. I always think that in a couple of minutes it’ll kick in and I’ll just start understanding them. Of course it never happens.

Meanwhile, it appears that Jyte users agree unanimously. I suppose I should have linked to your blog post on the subject rather than mine. But of course that one does lead back here. -mark

]]> By: PDI^2 :: Enigma linguistico reto-romancio :: March :: 2007 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-144420 PDI^2 :: Enigma linguistico reto-romancio :: March :: 2007 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:00:30 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/04/not-all-switzerland-speaks-german-dammit/#comment-144420 <p>[...] Nella mia vita alternativa, che si svolge nel continuum-B del multiverso, faccio il linguista. Ricordo che fin da piccolo ho saputo che il friulano è una lingua a se, e non un dialetto. Poi da grandicello ho scoperto l’esistenza del ladino, strana lingua dolomitica. E oggi, grazie a questo blog, linkato da luca togni ho scoperto l’esistenza del romancio, e del fatto che tutte e tre queste lingue possono essere messe in un comune blocco linguistico noto come reto-romanzo. [...]</p> […] Nella mia vita alternativa, che si svolge nel continuum-B del multiverso, faccio il linguista. Ricordo che fin da piccolo ho saputo che il friulano è una lingua a se, e non un dialetto. Poi da grandicello ho scoperto l’esistenza del ladino, strana lingua dolomitica. E oggi, grazie a questo blog, linkato da luca togni ho scoperto l’esistenza del romancio, e del fatto che tutte e tre queste lingue possono essere messe in un comune blocco linguistico noto come reto-romanzo. […]

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