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Zurich (German), 2009

Sbeschtwosjehetsgits - young people in Zurich discuss the "youth word of the year 2009", an example of "Yugoslang": an ungrammatical Swiss German construction based on the supposedly broken language of young Balkan immigrants. It means "fantastic".

Zurich (German), 2009

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