Re: The many Marks of the GZG Mailing List.

-MWS- wrote:

> > > It seems as if only Dicks or Harrys could do. No Jerrys.
> >
> > Obviously, no jerrys. Otherwise they'd be Deutsch Marks.
> 
> [THWAP!]
> Bad Alan! BAAAAD!  Hauptmann Mark has Swiss background, not German <g>
. . . .
> Mark "Hauptmann" Shurtleff

Ah, "Schweeze Dootsch". As opposed to the Hauptman aus Kopenick.

When working alongside the engineers from OCZ (Oerlikon-Contraves
Zurich), I found they spoke German with an Italian accent, Italian with
a French accent, and French with a German accent. The Swiss accent on
German is a cause of great hilarity in Northern Germany, much as I
suppose a broad Scots "Och Aye, the Nu" accent is in England.
  
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