Talk:Swiss French

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Use of bon après-midi for 'good after-noon'.

This is never used in the same way as a good afternoon. It might be used as a 'goodbye, have a good afternoon' (au revoir, (passez un) bon après-midi). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.105.206.221 (talk) 02:16, 2 January 2009 (UTC) <!--Autosigned by donald trump 2021 VOTE ME DONALD TRUMP!!! -_-

Italics
I added italics around every term in the examples table according to MOS:FOREIGN. We could probably cut down on those examples, or even make that section more prose-like, and there could definitely be more citations. --MarkTraceur (talk) 15:22, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Incompleteness of English version
Anyone reading the English version of this article may think these are the only differences between Swiss and Standard French, whereas many more are mentioned in the French version. The English version seems to suggest the only notable differences are in vocabulary, whereas among the most striking features of Swiss French are its slightly sing-song accent and different pronunciation of certain words. I suggest that the entire French article be translated into English, or else that readers be told the English version does not provide a complete picture.83.163.73.142 (talk) 11:10, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

chiquelette for chewing gum
is this an adoption of the brand name "Chiclet"?--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 15:46, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

The comparison table
The comparison table needs cleanup to remove the many slang words, because it currently unreasonably bloats the differences between Swiss French and Parisian French. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 19:17, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

"Se parquer" and other regionally correct words
Referring to the revert edit of Sapphorain Revision as of 11:27, 9 June 2020 (edit) (undo) (thank) Sapphorain (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 961587233 by Florian.lancelle (talk) No! This meaning of the verb is used since 1930 by French authors, and is even mentioned in the 9th edition of the French Academy's dictionary)

=> I understand you're also a native French speaker. "se parquer" may well be in the French Academy's dictionary, but using the word in France in everyday life would only give you weird looks when speaking about parking a car. It is nowhere used as often in France in everyday language as it is in French-speaking Switzerland (la Romandie). I would even dare to say never, as far as Northern France and the Paris regions are concerned. If you were to consistently apply this logic, then the words "pive" and "attique" also need to be removed, as these as perfectly understood and often used in the French Haute-Savoie region next to Geneva, hence not Swiss-french specifics.

Amicalement Florian.lancelle (talk) 12:29, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, true, there are practically no words or expressions that are used in Switzerland only: the region in which they are heard is almost always larger than the Romandie, and includes as well parts of France and sometimes of Italy (the Piémont). It would thus be excessively picky to exclude a word from the list because it is also found just across the border. But there is a big difference between « regionally used » and « not understood by Parisians ». On the site of the "Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales" the word « pive » is explicitly labelled as a Swiss or regional French word: . Whereas the reflexive pronominal use of « parquer » is just labelled as familiar and rare, without any mention of regionalism, let alone of Swiss use: . So it might be true that using it in Paris would give you weird looks, but this is not a good enough reason to put it in a list of Swiss words. Sapphorain (talk) 21:53, 7 July 2020 (UTC)