SWISS DIALECT EXHIBITION.

From the Swiss Review (thanks, Paul!), a report by Miriam Hutter (English, French, German) on a National Library exhibition on the country's dialects; it's superficial but has interesting bits:

In Grisons, for example, 40 years after its introduction as a common written language for the five Romansh dialects, Rumantsch Grischun is still not accepted as such by everyone. Dialects attempt to outdo one another in German-speaking Switzerland. The most beautiful, popular or attractive Mundart is chosen using surveys that are not always very well-founded. [...] Hardly anyone now speaks dialects in French-speaking Switzerland but that does not mean that the French-speaking Swiss do not have anything to contribute to the debate on dialects. Many of them find it disappointing and frustrating that