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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by paulg2222 on Friday January 17, 2025 @03:13PM (#42742779)
It is not German, but Alemannic.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by Pooge on Friday January 17, 2025 @03:17PM (#42742812)
I'm sorry if this sounds offensive or derogatory. But as a Swiss person, I've never heard anyone call it "Alemannic". Whether it be foreigners, Swiss-French speakers or Swiss-German speakers, everyone called it "German".
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by slater on Friday January 17, 2025 @04:32PM (#42743498)
Probably making a distinction between high german and swiss german.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemannic_German

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by computerthings on Friday January 17, 2025 @05:04PM (#42743775)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German

> Swiss German (Standard German: Schweizerdeutsch, Alemannic German: Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart, and others; Romansh: Svizzers Tudestg) is any of the Alemannic dialects spoken in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and in some Alpine communities in Northern Italy bordering Switzerland.

All Swiss-German is an Alemannic dialect, not all Alemannic dialects are Swiss-German, is how I'd interpret that.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by atq2119 on Saturday January 18, 2025 @05:25AM (#42747307)
Right, but it's still German. So the statement "It's not German, but Alemannic" is just plain false.
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