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Re: PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

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Post by eru »

noipv4 wrote: post #9
MisterSandman wrote: post #3

The link leads to a reddit post, which leads to another reddit post, which leads to this article in Swiss: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-... I can't read Swiss... but the comments on Reddit seem to show that this isn't as cut and dry as the title makes it sound. Quoting /u/hamsterman20: > "First of all, he was going to a chinese university with a chinese scholarship. > He left the swiss…

Lol, it's German. There is no Swiss language. We speak German, French, Italian and Romansch here.

(Spoken) Swiss German might as well be its own language. At least since we are already accepting Dutch being different from (Low) German.

Of course in this case, the write-up is in standard high German. Google Translate handles that just fine.

Re: PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

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Post by ChemSpider »

MisterSandman wrote: post #3

The link leads to a reddit post, which leads to another reddit post, which leads to this article in Swiss: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-... I can't read Swiss... but the comments on Reddit seem to show that this isn't as cut and dry as the title makes it sound. Quoting /u/hamsterman20: > "First of all, he was going to a chinese university with a chinese scholarship. > He left the swiss…

> it isn't like a Swiss Student randomly tweeted about the CCP and got kicked out.

Based on the original article, it is pretty much exactly like that. The newspaper talked to both sides and clearly believes the student over the professor. It seems everything else are excuses by the Prof and the university (which has plenty of cooperations with China).

Now, if the student was technically enrolled at the University or the prof was "only" his PhD advisor, does not change anything about the story.

Edit: English version of the article here: https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spot...

Re: PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

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Post by Shacklz »

noipv4 wrote: post #9
MisterSandman wrote: post #3

The link leads to a reddit post, which leads to another reddit post, which leads to this article in Swiss: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-... I can't read Swiss... but the comments on Reddit seem to show that this isn't as cut and dry as the title makes it sound. Quoting /u/hamsterman20: > "First of all, he was going to a chinese university with a chinese scholarship. > He left the swiss…

Lol, it's German. There is no Swiss language. We speak German, French, Italian and Romansch here.

> We speak German

The Germans might see that a bit different than us ;) Jokes aside, the article was of course in German.

Re: PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

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Post by [deleted] »

MisterSandman wrote: post #3

The link leads to a reddit post, which leads to another reddit post, which leads to this article in Swiss: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-... I can't read Swiss... but the comments on Reddit seem to show that this isn't as cut and dry as the title makes it sound. Quoting /u/hamsterman20: > "First of all, he was going to a chinese university with a chinese scholarship. > He left the swiss…

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Re: PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

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Post by denysvitali »

eru wrote: post #11
noipv4 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol, it's German. There is no Swiss language. We speak German, French, Italian and Romansch here.

(Spoken) Swiss German might as well be its own language. At least since we are already accepting Dutch being different from (Low) German. Of course in this case, the write-up is in standard high German. Google Translate handles that just fine.

The problem there is that there is no standardization across all the Swiss German variations, for foreigners, this is an interesting comparison of 5 of these dialects:

https://youtu.be/nEAcepckl5U

Re: PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

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Post by watwut »

noipv4 wrote: post #9
MisterSandman wrote: post #3

The link leads to a reddit post, which leads to another reddit post, which leads to this article in Swiss: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-... I can't read Swiss... but the comments on Reddit seem to show that this isn't as cut and dry as the title makes it sound. Quoting /u/hamsterman20: > "First of all, he was going to a chinese university with a chinese scholarship. > He left the swiss…

Lol, it's German. There is no Swiss language. We speak German, French, Italian and Romansch here.

People who speak German regularly dont understand Swiss German as it is different.

Re: PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

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Post by ChemSpider »

square_usual wrote: post #7

Great example of a clickbait headline right there. No love lost for the CCP from my side, but making stuff up is stupid. The guy burned bridges with his doctoral advisor, left the uni, went to China to study in a Chinese university and posted a racist cartoon about Chinese people. Then after they expelled him (figures) he tried to force his way back into the previous one. None of this is the least bit controversial.

Where in the article do you read that?

https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spot...

Re: PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

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Post by yannvon »

watwut wrote: post #16
noipv4 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol, it's German. There is no Swiss language. We speak German, French, Italian and Romansch here.

People who speak German regularly dont understand Swiss German as it is different.

Sure, but this was not Swiss German.
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