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by maracuja-juice 2620 days ago
Alao a Swiss resident here: Totally agree. It's basically just Swiss German with some French nouns.

The dialect of Valais is a lot harder to understand than this. But I guess in normal conversation it's a different case again.

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(Also a Swiss resident here)

Another interesting language is (rather, was) "Matten-Englisch", something like Pig-Latin, "because people wanted to communicate in a way the police would not understand": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattenenglisch