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Martin Müller, a Germanist with a penchant for in-depth lexical analysis, explores dialect words from German-speaking Switzerland in his latest work and has compiled terms for women and men
Martin Müller, a Germanist with a penchant for lexical depth, deals with dialect words in German-speaking Switzerland in his latest work and has collected terms for women and menBücher-Service Also for Naisälis and Doorfnoggels
and for what women and men usually do together behind drawn curtains. In Zurich, this would be referred to with the verb "böpperle", whereas in the canton of Uri it is called "boorä" or (more forcefully): "boorzä". Müller has equipped his "Word Museum" with 3000 terms, almost exclusively nouns. The book belongs on the shelf of every so-called industrial poet, for whom nothing human is alien in the search for the right word in dialect.
Martin Müller, "Amedisli. Woman and man in Swiss German". Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld, ISBN 3-7193-1274-7, 39.80 francs.
and for what women and men usually do together behind drawn curtains. In Zurich, this would be referred to with the verb "böpperle", whereas in the canton of Uri it is called "boorä" or (more forcefully): "boorzä". Müller has equipped his "Word Museum" with 3000 terms, almost exclusively nouns. The book belongs on the shelf of every so-called industrial poet, for whom nothing human is alien in the search for the right word in dialect.
Martin Müller, "Amedisli. Woman and man in Swiss German". Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld, ISBN 3-7193-1274-7, 39.80 francs.
