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In Switzerland we have a lot of languages, for example the same town has 3 names in three languages: Luzern (German), Lausanne (French) and Lugano (Italian). Thats absolutelly true
That’s why Bonn was the West German Capital at some point and why the court in Germany is in Karlsruhe... I only know Bonn because my grandparents live close to there.
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And Lucerne almost became the de-facto capital, too back in the day when they discussed it. Although, I don't remember what finally made it to be Bern.
@@waynebrady1819 Wrong. There are several reasons why Berne was chosen. Firstly, they wanted an influential city that was in the heart of Switzerland. Lucerne was the best suited for this but Lucerne as a canton was catholic and because the catholics lost the "civil war" they were not given this privilege. Because Geneva, Basel and Lausanne were not as close to the geograhic centre of Switzerland and Zurich was insignificant at that time, Berne was chosen.
@@soadodadjian730 Wrong. The "Hauptstadtfrage der Schweiz" was clarified in 1848. At that time Zürich already was the largest and most influencal city in Switzerland and not close to being insignificant, as you can see in the first swiss Volkszählung in 1850, Bern was second. Genève, Basel and Lausanne weren't even in consideration and at the end there were only 3 candidates with Zürich, Bern and Luzern. They chose Bern because especially the eastern part of Switzerland rejected the idea of Zürich as a capital city, the problem they had with the Sonderbund in Luzern, Bern's proximity (strategically and culturally) to the Romandie (as I wrote) and the fact that the city of Bern offered to help pay for the localities and the government can use them rent free.
@@einehrenmann6156 In my region it's tradition that the person that drops the bread has to wash all the dishes afterwards.... prefer the one with beer hands down.
Same.. The chances that we swiss know what our capital is is a bit higher than someone from he US where half of the population can’t even find their own country on a map. :) th-cam.com/video/umpalMtQE50/w-d-xo.html
Technically it is kind of the capital. It is the "Bundesstadt" (federal city is the closest translation for that) and the de facto capital, but not the de jure capital.
I told someone that Bern is capital of Switzerland, they yelled at me in from of my whole family until I started crying and than they told me to go watch this video and gave me a link to audible
@@Genci0 Actually, he was talking about cantons. The industrious canton, the pretentious canton, the spicy meatball canton. It's just not possible to include Romansch in the joke as there isn't a Romansch canton - and that could have been easily seen if Filthy Capitalist wouldn't be such a liar.
dude, bern is switzerlands capital, was it always. its not constituted, but the decisions are made in that city, which makes it automatically to the capital city
condolences to the sinking nauru, but can i nominate the city state of singapore as a suitable replacement, before she too inevitably sinks a couple decades later.
@@ilovesuisse1 someone found it very funny to invent a planet in the Star Wars universe called _Aargau_ (it's star is called _Zug_ ) guess who rules the planet ? Bank of Aargau :) needless to say the bank is also major member of the Intergalactic Banking Clan. now this is a full fledged cliche.... starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Aargau/Legends
@@rafaelurben BUt because no one speaks it outside of the swiss borders, its arguebly a good excuse why you forget to name it. But yeah it is a national language.
Emmenthaler, but actually the holes were from the days when cheese making was a little less... clean. A piece of hay would get caught in the cheese before it was molded, and over time the bacteria inside would ferment and vent off gas, creating the hole.
swiss secret service will find you, take you to a secret location referred to as 'the capital' and feed you american cheese before you beg for mercy! ;)
more like: when I get to be chosen "+'s president" I don't actually wield any executive "power" I just get to organize the meetings efficiently, make shure to allow each representative a succesfull presentation of the matters for which their constituency had chosen to send them over, incurage discussions and produce a meaningfull conclusion to be presented to the legislators. US style presidencies just seem to be gloryfied temporary monarchies -_- .
@@naotamf1588 That is what the Founding Fathers and Washington intended the US Presidency to be: a position of unity with some powers in diplomacy and veto (though should be used sparingly). The POTUS wasn't even supposed to have a standing army, only borrowing state militias, until practical matters made that neutering moot...
@@rivenoak If you try to translate "Eidgenossenschaft" literally, you can indeed end up with a "Fellowship of the Oath", but also with "Oath Cooperative", "Oath Confraternity" or even a somewhat Communist-sounding "Comradeship of the Oath"... ;-)
A reference to the supperspreader event in Schwyz last September, maybe. www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/finger-pointed-at-swiss-yodelling-superspreader-concert/ar-BB1a46Sa
Thanks. I didn't hear the video I chose to watch and so having kids like you to write things we all clearly heard and don't need subtitles for is really a huge lifesaver and time saver. Without kids quoting lines from videos we'd all have to rewind again and again trying to make sure we comprehend everything... So... THANK YOU SO MUCH for quoting dialogue to try and get likes, inadvertently saving the world through your valiant efforts... the real heroes is you..
@@SPFLDAngler nah the real hero is you, who bothered to type 2 paragraphs to call a rando nickname on yt "kid" for quoting their favourite line of the video and generally being an ass. good on you being the first one ever to shit on someone directly quoting the video! how is that superiority complex working for you?
@@SPFLDAngler Yes, lord forbid I show my appreciation for a particular joke. Hey, tell you what, next time you are hanging out with the HAI guy, do me a favor and clap when he makes a joke I like. Because, ya' know, he can't hear me when I do it from my home, so I need some other method to show my appreciation. Seems like there should be some way we could do that....ya' know, like indicate which joke we liked so when the HAI goes trolling through the comments he can get a sense of what is working and what isn't. That seems like an impossible task though, so I guess I'll just sit here quietly and leave him guessing. But hey, look at the bright side, Rhubarb the Wannabe Tough Guy will be happy!
Wait, just wait! What was told in this video was true but for only a few exceptions. During a specific period of the french revolution, namely 1798 to 1803, Switzerland was known as "Helvetic Republic" . In the first place, a small city named Aarau, wich was loyal to France, had the same function as Bern does today. In the first helvetic constitution of 1798, the city of Lucerne was mentioned as capital! Three years later 1801 the second constitution came in place. Now it had to be the city of Bern to be the capital, because it was the capital of the largest and most powerful canton of these days. The helvetic republic then fell apart. A few years of chaos took place. Then the idea of a new swiss federation was born. Finally, in 1853, todays west wing of the swiss capitol was build in Bern. Not because of the constitution, nor because it is the most beautiful city but because of money (since we're talking about switzerland)! Bern became the "federal city" because the council of the city hall decided to pay for the building! What they didn't know was that the country startet to join in a few more cantons so that bern had to build also an east wing and the central wing wich was finally completed 1902, 50 years later! There is another small detail. Switzerland is also not the real name of the country. Officially it means: Confoederatio Helvetica wich can be translated as Confederation of Helvetica. Formerly it is the Swiss Federation. This is a reference to the legendary oath taken at the foundation of the Old Swiss Confederacy wich took place in the "Canton of Schwyz" (pronounced: 'shveets' ) . And that's why it's called SWITZerland! Tanks fot your attention.
"This is a reference to the legendary oath taken at the foundation of the Old Swiss Confederacy wich took place in the "Canton of Schwyz" but Rütli is on *Uri* territory ;)
@@rivenoak I did not mention the Rütli in any way because it is a myth. What I'm referring to is the Federal Charter of 1291 and the Pact of Brunnen of 1315 wich have been written in the Canton of Schwyz.
Swiss here. Congrats that was really accurate. You could also speak about the Sonderbund War one day. It's a civil war that happened in 1847 and I think it might be very interesting for Americans.
@@saltyredcat Yes. From memory, the cantons of Neuchâtel and one of the Appenzell were neutrals. In very short (and basic), it was a Civil War between traditional and conservative cantons against progressive cantons mainly based on their respective view about how centralized Switzerland should be. (That's summarized, a lot)
I expected a joke like: "Then the cantons decided that they should form a nation and be even more friendly and have even less wars but they had a war over this which ended in them forming a nation and being even more friendly and having even less wars.
@@andreasambuhl9550 That is what the legend says, it also says that the only person who died during that war was the one who, while drunk, drown into the soup.
Yeh, but we can't have *that* sort of pronunciation in French, else it'd be exposed as the horribly broken Latin it is, rather than sounding like its own legitimate language.
Sam: “Why has everything that you ever read or watched said what the capital of switzerland is? What kind of freaky channel are you subscribed to?!?” Me: “Wendover productions” Sam: Oh ok cool, have a nice day.
They should get technical and say "seat of government, but not the capital" (unless there's no way of translating that in German, French, Italian and Romansh)
You don't learn in school that Bern is de jure the capital, you just look at a map and everyone treats it like this. It's general knowledge that should be "known" without being taught, it's like saying you learned that a sheep has four legs in school
People may criticize Switzerland for not having a formal capital but if you’re considering the country holistically you have to admit the flag is a big plus.
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@@iqes Many place names in German have weird Anglicized versions, like Köln - Cologne, München - Munich in Germany, or Kärnten - Carinthia or Steiermark - Styria in Austria for example.
Bern is the most beautiful city I have ever visited. You can swim around the whole of the city, people float around on inflatables it’s honestly amazing.
Imagine being Swiss and watch this video so confused... yeah that’s because I’m swiss and I assure you nobody here doesn’t say Bern is not the capital. It is that it
@@Enzo_q It really is not the capital, there are countries with two or three capitals as well, something weird isn't that uncommon. Saying that he should "shut the fuck up" because you don't care what's the truth doesn't put you in a good spotlight here.
Portugal also doesn’t have an official capital city. Lisbon is just the de facto capital, but was never declared anywhere as being the capital. The Kings just moved and started governing from there without any declaration.
Switzerland: Has Bern, Lausanne and Bellinzoa Netherlands: Has Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam. South Africa: Has Cape Town, Pretoria and Bloemfontein. . . . . . Singapore: Has Singapore...
Actually there are two legislative acts that stipulate that the Federal Parliament shall normally be settled in Bern and that all other major federal government entities shall too, including the Chancellerie. By mean of these two acts, embassies are also settled in Bern. Thus, having the Federal Parliament, the federal government’s entities and the embassies on Bern’s soil, Bern became per se the capital city of Switzerland
The UK has no law stating where its capital is either, but I think we're all agreed it's London. Fact is, what we regard as the capital of a country is where its parliament and government are most commonly located, and on both counts that's Bern. The Federal Council, Federal Assembly and the headquarters of all 8 of the Federal Departments are in Bern.
There is so much wrong with this. While Bern is not the de jure capital (because there isn't any) it is the de facto capital. Meaning your whole video is about semantics. 1:45 The reason the "neighbors" didn't bother is that Switzerland was part of the Holy Roman Empire until 1648 and every bit that is now Switzerland was fought for and won by the Swiss confederation. It's not that Switzerland was not worth it, it was that Switzerland was so good at war, that it wasn't possible. Switzerland was once famous for their warriors (why do you think the pope still has a Swiss guard). 3:57 Lucerne is smaller than Bern 4:00 Bern wasn't less intimidating, rather it was the opposite. In the middle ages Bern was the most powerful city not only in Switzerland but north of the Alps. Most of what is Switzerland was won by or with the help of Bernese troops. That's why the historic seat of the government was in Bern and why Bern was chosen as the "Bundesstadt/federal city". 4:26 There is literally no way you could pronounce "Lausanne" worse...
You're unfortunately absolutely right. I blame the lack of good sources in English about Switzerland, HAI videos are often a lot better than this. Also I might add the part about Switzerland being the result of "let's be even more peaceful" kind of flies into the face of the fact it was created after a civil war and decades of internal strife, after the Helvetic Republic collapsed to... internal strife. One thing though, I'd say that Berne was definitely among the most important cities in 1848 when it was decided, but it was not as most powerful or influential as it once was, and Zurich is probably not the capital because it was might have been seen as more of the centre of the liberal coalition at the time.
Very few countries have laws specifying what their capital is. Normally the capital is the place where the legislature is. The United Kingdom, for example, has NO written constitution. The USA is unusual in having the capital's location officially written into law prior to WW2.
There are a lot of fellow swiss citizens who seem to be unaware of this. But I can assure you, we did learn that stuff in school. People probably forget about it, because its a rather boring fact for some 12 year old to remember. (Im Gägesatz zum endoplasmatische Retikulum lol)
November 1848, the National Council and the Council of States chose the city of Berne as the federal seat of Switzerland, but it is not called the capital but the federal city. Many guests from abroad are surprised that Bern is the "capital" of Switzerland.
As s German from the south of Germany with a few friends in Switzerland: Bern is called "Bundesstadt Bern" (federal city of Bern) in official documents. Everyone refers to Bern as the capital. In Bern German and French are spoken (street names are German, many road signs are bilingual). Close to nobody in Bern speaks Italian (well nobody outside of Ticino does).
@@lodu8731 German is by far the dominant language in Bern (city of Bern), but French (as a second language) is spoken on a B/C level by a large part of the population.
Romansh is as far as I know only a national language and not an official language. For instance, the official website of the Swiss confederation is not translated in Romansh.
@@berthold64 In the case of the EU, not really. its more a federation that countries can leave when they want to (at least, right now). The HRE was far more complicated, had its own rules, laws, taxes, etc than the EU currently is. Hell, members of the HRE could war on each other and not cause too many issues for the ""empire"" Switzerland is a confederation; considers itself one country made up of semi-sovereign entities with more authority than the central government.
It's funny say that when you learn that the first federal language was Latin. 😅 They used Latin so that no official language would be more important than the other ones
Well. Tomorrow you stand in front of your class and tell them otherwise. I, a Swiss, demand this from you. Otherwise we'll ban all Cheese and Chocolate supply to your country.
Bern is actually the Switzerland’s “capital” because of the back story Bern has, powerful army for one of the reasons, and there are 4 national languages, one being the Romansh, talked by about 10’000 people, but is actually never seen anywhere else, when our supermarkets usually show every languages (french, german and Italian) on every product, wherever you live. Also, the federal council (our “president”, but there are seven) has to have at least be composed of 3 people who are from French cantons and talk French, and 3 people coming from German cantons, to make it fair for everyone
Bern is the capital city of Switzerland, it just doesn't say that in Swiss law, because there is no need for the law to declare the capital city. The law is just as effective regardless of whether or not it says where the capital city is. Other countries' laws only do that largely because they're copying the US. Switzerland doesn't do things just because they see other countries doing them, which I admire hugely.
The fact that the whole government take place in a city is the definition of a capitale, even though, as you correctly said, it is written nowhere for Switzerland.
From a juristical view there is no official Capital in Switzerland, but there is a 'de facto' capital which has no difference from a usual Capital city :-)
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yo
wow
No
Lausanne is pronounced like Lau-San. The e is silent.
Bricks.
As someone living in Lausanne, I’ve never heard someone call my city Lasagna.
Would that be a Lasagne with little greenish-yellow onions in it?
thought the same thing aha
Ça m’a tué j’étais là genre "lau- quoi?" Hahah
Same, I laughed so hard when I heard it
Welp, too bad so sad, that's gonna be its new official name now. I've already started gathering signatures for the name change referendum.
Switzerland: “Lausanne”
HAI: ...... “Lasagne”
In Switzerland we have a lot of languages, for example the same town has 3 names in three languages: Luzern (German), Lausanne (French) and Lugano (Italian). Thats absolutelly true
@@CP117 wtf? cap
@@CP117 lool
@@CP117 you forgot romanch
@@sifta It's an old joke.
Imagine tryna take over switzerland but you cant find the capital
and a whole lot of ambushes
If you would even get in🤣🤣
This is why Switzerland was Always Neutral
@@eye1358 and for most coutries invading schwitzerland would have been equal to raiding your own vault
That’s why Bonn was the West German Capital at some point and why the court in Germany is in Karlsruhe...
I only know Bonn because my grandparents live close to there.
Switzerland is so neutral that they are neutral on where their capital is.
Neutral
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Mutually neutral on having neutrality vibe
@@maiqtheliar789 Zapp Brannigan is so wise
I was thinking this.
In short, it is the de-facto capital not the de-jure.
Just like London.
oh i finally get the difference btw the 2 terms after reading your comment.
So basically, de jure is like "by law" and de facto is just well de facto.
Yes yes I also can read Wikipedia.
Okay smart guy
@@TrimutiusToo Even the smartest people have to learn from somewhere.
If Switzerland is neutral, why is its flag positive?
If anybody actually asks that question, they will cancel each other out and the whole nation disappears.
For your knowledge it's not a flag but a banner because he is not rectangular he is square...
The red cancels out the positive.
@@tk5gqj514 Latvia??
woooooooooow😂😂😂
As a Swiss myself, I can tell you that most Swiss people don't know about this and assume Bern is their capital.
The Waschküche is our capital
@@CP117 You mean the buanderie, right?
Im not Swiss and I always assumed it was Geneva lmao
@@TrollalexploratriceOnche yes, for the people from the west ;-)
@@CP117 D'wäschchuchi isch usi hauptstad.
People: "Is Bern your capital?"
Swiss: "Well yes, but actually no"
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South Africa: That’s cute.
@@AxxLAfriku at least try to make sense before advertising your garbage thanks
*yesn’t
@Abhijit Pathak me too my all life
"Larger cities like Zurich, Geneva and Lucerne..."
Lucerne: *literally half the size of Berne*
I think back in the day Lucerne was bigger than Berne
And Lucerne almost became the de-facto capital, too back in the day when they discussed it. Although, I don't remember what finally made it to be Bern.
@@dans4323
The proximity to the french speaking part of Switzerland and the fact that the Kanton of Bern it's self is bilingual.
@@waynebrady1819 Wrong. There are several reasons why Berne was chosen. Firstly, they wanted an influential city that was in the heart of Switzerland. Lucerne was the best suited for this but Lucerne as a canton was catholic and because the catholics lost the "civil war" they were not given this privilege.
Because Geneva, Basel and Lausanne were not as close to the geograhic centre of Switzerland and Zurich was insignificant at that time, Berne was chosen.
@@soadodadjian730 Wrong. The "Hauptstadtfrage der Schweiz" was clarified in 1848. At that time Zürich already was the largest and most influencal city in Switzerland and not close to being insignificant, as you can see in the first swiss Volkszählung in 1850, Bern was second. Genève, Basel and Lausanne weren't even in consideration and at the end there were only 3 candidates with Zürich, Bern and Luzern. They chose Bern because especially the eastern part of Switzerland rejected the idea of Zürich as a capital city, the problem they had with the Sonderbund in Luzern, Bern's proximity (strategically and culturally) to the Romandie (as I wrote) and the fact that the city of Bern offered to help pay for the localities and the government can use them rent free.
As a swiss person I am surprised to learn this. I did not know that.
Edit: yes, it’s a technicality that Bern isn’t our capitol
Wow your education system is failing you
weird, im also from switzerland and we learned that in school
Wow we learn bern is the capital now i can go to the teacher: um acually
Wait til you find out you're adopted...
@@jonathancotting1445 We never really covered swiss topics. We only touched upon it if it came up with something else
dropping your bread into the fondue as a capital offense is just perfect
Laughed too much at this, I will bring this up next time I eat Fondü with my family 😂
Or letting the meatroll float in the fondue chinoise because it didn't stick to your fork and gets mushy now...
Tradition is that the Person that dropped his Bread in the Pot has to pay the next Round of Beers. At least in my Region
@@einehrenmann6156 In my region it's tradition that the person that drops the bread has to wash all the dishes afterwards.... prefer the one with beer hands down.
@@einehrenmann6156 It's actually a "house rule". So you can basically come up with any rules you want.
The Video: Bern isn't the Capital City of Switzerland
Me, as a Swiss: It isn't?
Right? I was like, wait what?
Yeah Bern is the capital.
Same.. The chances that we swiss know what our capital is is a bit higher than someone from he US where half of the population can’t even find their own country on a map. :) th-cam.com/video/umpalMtQE50/w-d-xo.html
😂
Technically it is kind of the capital. It is the "Bundesstadt" (federal city is the closest translation for that) and the de facto capital, but not the de jure capital.
I told someone that Bern is capital of Switzerland, they yelled at me in from of my whole family until I started crying and than they told me to go watch this video and gave me a link to audible
I was gonna comment that. Hope you don't have copyrights on your comment, cause I'm gonna comment that.
@@Think_Inc noone loves you
You mistook him for a mirror I guess
Bern is de facto the capital of switzerland but de jure switzerland has no capital
BS. 99% of swiss ppl do NOT know that berne (this is how you spell it in english) isn't the capital.
"industrious can speak German, pretentious can speak French, and the spicy meatball can speak Italian."
This is Romansch erasure.
With you, dude. But don't worry; it's not going to happen. Even the progressives wouldn't let it.
Why did you tamper with what was really said in the video... ah... but then you couldn't make that point.
He is racist, he forgot the romanisch that are the real swiss.
Yes, we just always get forgotten :( thankfully the law wont let us erase :) .. yet D:
@@Genci0 Actually, he was talking about cantons. The industrious canton, the pretentious canton, the spicy meatball canton. It's just not possible to include Romansch in the joke as there isn't a Romansch canton - and that could have been easily seen if Filthy Capitalist wouldn't be such a liar.
No wonder Switzerland has such stunning nature, they’re so neutral they don’t get acid rain
Underrated comment
Lol
Good one
Can Tay Zonday sing a sad "acid rain" song please?
Switzerland doesn’t have a capital? Idk man, they have lots of gold.
We have your gold ;-)
they have a capital, it’s the S at the front of their name
Yep, the most important thing is Swiss have billion golds of to urs.
@The Godfather Hallo, dear Freund of mine :)
And we will keep safe gold of yours bought with money of yours lmfao.
@Totally not the flash :3 you have gold in your hearth, nobody can take this from you ;-)
"Bern is the capital of Switzerland."
The fat conductor laughed. "You are wrong."
fat conductor failed to follow the HAI instructions tho
The Fat Controller.
*Sir Tophim Hat
And finally, they started using Audible in order to get Jeff above Elon.
dude, bern is switzerlands capital, was it always. its not constituted, but the decisions are made in that city, which makes it automatically to the capital city
swiss people: see the swiss flag
swiss people: “i have been summoned”
Do beni
Hoi zämme
@@LordEiscrem grüezi👋
Joo salii🤣 alles fit im schritt? Wer het au ide schuel glernt dass bern dhauptstadt ish?
@@asra8333 uf jede hends üs eif agloge
Never ask a
Man: His salary
Woman: Her age
A swiss person: Where they got their gold
@@athirkell he never said they didnt
@@athirkell you SHOULD, in fact, ask a woman their salary to help make sure she's getting paid fairly :D
We exported chocolate and cheese, and the other countries just paid us with gold. And now, STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!
@@athirkell I sense an SJW in you
Or where they got their Impressionist and post-impressionist artworks
Switzerland: doesn't have a capital
Nauru: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
Well, Nauru barely exists.
But it is the only country whose name means "laughter" in Finnish, so at least they've got that going for them, which is nice.
@@vurpo7080 you say that like people in Finland actually laugh
condolences to the sinking nauru, but can i nominate the city state of singapore as a suitable replacement, before she too inevitably sinks a couple decades later.
Switzerland: keeps emitting greenhouse gases...
Nauru: Change the world, my final message... Goodb ye
Nice video, but Switzerland has FOUR languages: German, Italian, French AND a Romansh language.
And Albanian de-facto
@@ediblefactory7030 thats not an oficial language of Switzerland
@@ediblefactory7030 if we talk about de facto languages, you can add English, Spanish and Portuguese too
Switzerland has four *national* languages but only 3 *official* languages, that’s the difference.
@@johnmurphy7674 Wtf no scence
A Turtle approved this video.
Thank God. I was worried
Your doing god's work 🙏
A Turtle more like a human
moo
Can I be approved by a turtle?
The clever jokes he inserts every other line are actually getting better.
Yeah I wonder he is the same guy from wendover production
Result of a giving high pay to his writers
@@rj5848
Nope! I've heard those two hate each other... strangely happen to both be named Sam too
*you”re here omg I thought Ray replaced you and Justin Y*
You're just saying that because YOU are not adopted :'( :'( :'(
“Alright, so we just gotta take over their capital and we take full control of their terrain”
Switzerland: Try me
Sam's pronunciation of Lausanne is the funniest line in this whole video
It's in Switcherland, and there's Leechtenstein next to it.
Lausagna
@@gyohngpersonal No, Lausanne is quite literally on the other side of Switzerland (in relation to Liechtenstein).
@@untruelie2640 You can get lasagne in Leech-ten-stein. (Seriously, I live in Austria. The Litschtenztein was a reference to another video)
How is it actually pronounced?
HAI: Switzerland has no capital
Switzerland: laughs in bank accounts
I think you need to get away from the banking cliches, it’s only people who live in the past that still come up with that.
@@ilovesuisse1 someone found it very funny to invent a planet in the Star Wars universe called _Aargau_ (it's star is called _Zug_ )
guess who rules the planet ? Bank of Aargau :)
needless to say the bank is also major member of the Intergalactic Banking Clan. now this is a full fledged cliche....
starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Aargau/Legends
@@ilovesuisse1 tf are you talking about- it‘s literally true lmao. We have some of the biggest banks in the world lol.
romansh is a swiss language too... why does everyone forget about us :(
cause no one bloody speaks it anymore xd
@@Nightmare23h But it's still an official national language of switzerland... 🤔
@@rafaelurben BUt because no one speaks it outside of the swiss borders, its arguebly a good excuse why you forget to name it. But yeah it is a national language.
Ye that makes me sad :(
@@rafaelurben No, it’s a national language, not an official one.
Correction: “Lausanne” is pronounced “Low-zan” not “lasagne”.
Pretty sure that was intentional
If you wanna be fAnCy you can add a subtle “euh” at the end, too.
@@Crossark1 I live near Lausanne and no you can't
it is Lasagna now.
I live in Lausanne and it's pronounced "lasange".
Switzerland has all kinds of cheese, and hardly any of them have holes.
Pssst, we wanna sell them that crappy emmenthaler, so we can keep the good cheese for our self...
Swiss cheese police is on their way..
Emmenthaler, but actually the holes were from the days when cheese making was a little less... clean. A piece of hay would get caught in the cheese before it was molded, and over time the bacteria inside would ferment and vent off gas, creating the hole.
And the Swiss Cheese sold in the US usually isn’t Swiss.
swiss secret service will find you, take you to a secret location referred to as 'the capital' and feed you american cheese before you beg for mercy! ;)
Random guy: Is Bern your capital?
Swiss: Well... yes, but yesn’t...?
jain....
Bruhh
As a french speaking swiss man, most people around here would tell you it is apart from a few nerds in the german part
nont
@@roofogato lol
Switzerland also has no single head of state. Their "leader" is a group of 7 different people of equal ranking.
Although one of them becomes president and heads their meetings. So there theoretically is one president of Switzerland.
more like: when I get to be chosen "+'s president" I don't actually wield any executive "power" I just get to organize the meetings efficiently, make shure to allow each representative a succesfull presentation of the matters for which their constituency had chosen to send them over, incurage discussions and produce a meaningfull conclusion to be presented to the legislators. US style presidencies just seem to be gloryfied temporary monarchies -_- .
man, the more i hear about these little details of swiss federalism, the more impressive it sounds...
@@LucaUpper so that explains why in hoi4 Switzerland’s leader picture is a building
@@naotamf1588 That is what the Founding Fathers and Washington intended the US Presidency to be: a position of unity with some powers in diplomacy and veto (though should be used sparingly). The POTUS wasn't even supposed to have a standing army, only borrowing state militias, until practical matters made that neutering moot...
Can't wait for the next video: "Why Amsterdam wasn't actually the capital of the Netherlands between 1815 and 1983"
Is that a fact?
Or "Why South Africa has no capital but also has 3 or 4 capitals at the same time... kinda"
Or what about "How Bolivia has actually two capital cities."
Even more weirder, Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, but not the official seat of government (that being Den Haag).
Well, send this to Wendover and get your free t-shirt! What are you waiting for?
You went from saying that Bern isn't the capital of Switzerland, to explaining how Switzerland is arguably not even a country.
Confederacy or very loose Federation.
@@oof5020 _Eidgenossenschaft_ as their german designation :) a posh "Fellowship of the Oath" then ? :D
@@rivenoak If you try to translate "Eidgenossenschaft" literally, you can indeed end up with a "Fellowship of the Oath", but also with "Oath Cooperative", "Oath Confraternity" or even a somewhat Communist-sounding "Comradeship of the Oath"... ;-)
Yeah but by this logic nether germany or the USA woud be a country too.
@@rivenoak which is fucking dope
"They did a yodeling battle instead, where the true loser, is everyone." XD
_everything_ with ears, actually.
A reference to the supperspreader event in Schwyz last September, maybe. www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/finger-pointed-at-swiss-yodelling-superspreader-concert/ar-BB1a46Sa
Thanks. I didn't hear the video I chose to watch and so having kids like you to write things we all clearly heard and don't need subtitles for is really a huge lifesaver and time saver. Without kids quoting lines from videos we'd all have to rewind again and again trying to make sure we comprehend everything...
So... THANK YOU SO MUCH for quoting dialogue to try and get likes, inadvertently saving the world through your valiant efforts... the real heroes is you..
@@SPFLDAngler nah the real hero is you, who bothered to type 2 paragraphs to call a rando nickname on yt "kid" for quoting their favourite line of the video and generally being an ass. good on you being the first one ever to shit on someone directly quoting the video! how is that superiority complex working for you?
@@SPFLDAngler Yes, lord forbid I show my appreciation for a particular joke. Hey, tell you what, next time you are hanging out with the HAI guy, do me a favor and clap when he makes a joke I like. Because, ya' know, he can't hear me when I do it from my home, so I need some other method to show my appreciation. Seems like there should be some way we could do that....ya' know, like indicate which joke we liked so when the HAI goes trolling through the comments he can get a sense of what is working and what isn't. That seems like an impossible task though, so I guess I'll just sit here quietly and leave him guessing. But hey, look at the bright side, Rhubarb the Wannabe Tough Guy will be happy!
"Knives have screwdrivers"
*Flashbacks to the $2000 Verge PC Build!*
Lol🤣🤣
“Hes not fighting static hes fighting cancer”
"TwEeZerS"
Wait, just wait!
What was told in this video was true but for only a few exceptions.
During a specific period of the french revolution, namely 1798 to 1803, Switzerland was known as "Helvetic Republic" .
In the first place, a small city named Aarau, wich was loyal to France, had the same function as Bern does today. In the first helvetic constitution of 1798, the city of Lucerne was mentioned as capital!
Three years later 1801 the second constitution came in place. Now it had to be the city of Bern to be the capital, because it was the capital of the largest and most powerful canton of these days.
The helvetic republic then fell apart. A few years of chaos took place. Then the idea of a new swiss federation was born.
Finally, in 1853, todays west wing of the swiss capitol was build in Bern. Not because of the constitution, nor because it is the most beautiful city but because of money (since we're talking about switzerland)!
Bern became the "federal city" because the council of the city hall decided to pay for the building!
What they didn't know was that the country startet to join in a few more cantons so that bern had to build also an east wing and the central wing wich was finally completed 1902, 50 years later!
There is another small detail.
Switzerland is also not the real name of the country. Officially it means: Confoederatio Helvetica wich can be translated as Confederation of Helvetica. Formerly it is the Swiss Federation. This is a reference to the legendary oath taken at the foundation of the Old Swiss Confederacy wich took place in the "Canton of Schwyz" (pronounced: 'shveets' ) . And that's why it's called SWITZerland!
Tanks fot your attention.
"This is a reference to the legendary oath taken at the foundation of the Old Swiss Confederacy wich took place in the "Canton of Schwyz"
but Rütli is on *Uri* territory ;)
@@rivenoak I did not mention the Rütli in any way because it is a myth. What I'm referring to is the Federal Charter of 1291 and the Pact of Brunnen of 1315 wich have been written in the Canton of Schwyz.
@DeletedUser0 In France, yes!
Swiss here. Congrats that was really accurate. You could also speak about the Sonderbund War one day. It's a civil war that happened in 1847 and I think it might be very interesting for Americans.
@@saltyredcat Yes. From memory, the cantons of Neuchâtel and one of the Appenzell were neutrals.
In very short (and basic), it was a Civil War between traditional and conservative cantons against progressive cantons mainly based on their respective view about how centralized Switzerland should be. (That's summarized, a lot)
I expected a joke like: "Then the cantons decided that they should form a nation and be even more friendly and have even less wars but they had a war over this which ended in them forming a nation and being even more friendly and having even less wars.
@@nilstrieb the joke is that they had a war before but then decided not to fight it and instead eat some soup together
@@andreasambuhl9550 lmao i need a HAI video on this now
@@andreasambuhl9550 That is what the legend says, it also says that the only person who died during that war was the one who, while drunk, drown into the soup.
Lisbon shares this same situation, it was never named the capital in an official document, it simply became the capital.
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Man, if Lausanne was pronounced, Lasagne, that would’ve made learning French much easier 😂. Can definitely see where the mistake was made
Yeh, but we can't have *that* sort of pronunciation in French, else it'd be exposed as the horribly broken Latin it is, rather than sounding like its own legitimate language.
@@MushVPeets oh yeah of course, would definitely butcher the beauty of the language... but hey! Easier to say amirite?
Made my day😂
I agree that french in general is hard to pronoucne, but Lausanne is really easy. it's just "lo-zan"
Lausanne was pronounced "Losane"
😂😂😂
The Swiss are so neutral that they can't even decide on a capital city
damn
Sam: “Why has everything that you ever read or watched said what the capital of switzerland is? What kind of freaky channel are you subscribed to?!?”
Me: “Wendover productions”
Sam: Oh ok cool, have a nice day.
fun fact: in swiss schools we also learn in school that bern is our capital
They should get technical and say "seat of government, but not the capital" (unless there's no way of translating that in German, French, Italian and Romansh)
You don't learn in school that Bern is de jure the capital, you just look at a map and everyone treats it like this. It's general knowledge that should be "known" without being taught, it's like saying you learned that a sheep has four legs in school
@@jeffbenton6183 you mean germana nd french becasue nobody is switzerland speaks teh ohter languages
it's almost impressive how many stereotypes you managed to fit into this 5 minute video
Even wrong ones, like Italy and meatballs, that's only a thing in America.
Video about Switzerland - exists
Comment section - exists
Swiss people: Allow us to introduce ourselves...
Sometimes, when I see Swiss on the internet, is like seeing a common breed of unicorn
We out here
Hello Innerschwiz
@still learning I wür sege di richtigi schribwis isch Chuchichästli nid Chochichästli
They're a different breed
People may criticize Switzerland for not having a formal capital but if you’re considering the country holistically you have to admit the flag is a big plus.
no.
it's two minusses bruh
Sam: “Why has everything that you ever read or watched said what the capital of switzerland is? What kind of freaky channel are you subscribed to?!?”
Me: “Its ok Sam, release your inner demons about Wendover Productions.”
You left out the weirdos in the Canton of Grisons who speak Romansch, but that's OK, so does everyone else.
Graubünden named grisons. Something i didn t now yet. Looks weird;)
yes. Stop harassing us all the time we get it :'(
We do not talk about them
@@vhaineemodesty1547 okay that hurts :(
@@iqes Many place names in German have weird Anglicized versions, like Köln - Cologne, München - Munich in Germany, or Kärnten - Carinthia or Steiermark - Styria in Austria for example.
Fun fact: If you transform "Bellinzona" into "Belli in zona", in Italian will mean "Beautifuls in zone"
And Lausanne is Lasgna, now
Why haven't I ever thought about that? Also because we normally just call it "Belli"
Man, you killed the Taylor swift song.
I loved the joke!
He killed it with that reference. I absolutely loved it! HAI has to know he belongs with me! 😜
Bern is the most beautiful city I have ever visited. You can swim around the whole of the city, people float around on inflatables it’s honestly amazing.
Imagine being Swiss and watch this video so confused... yeah that’s because I’m swiss and I assure you nobody here doesn’t say Bern is not the capital. It is that it
I was surprised too. Like, what is he talking about?
Yeah he should just stfu lmao. Bern is the capital, idc lol.
It's really just a pure technicality. Bern is the de facto capital of Switzerland, and we all treat it as such.
@@Enzo_q It really is not the capital, there are countries with two or three capitals as well, something weird isn't that uncommon. Saying that he should "shut the fuck up" because you don't care what's the truth doesn't put you in a good spotlight here.
Over here nobody calls it the capital, the government sure but we never called it the capital in school or colloquially 🤷
Me, a Swiss person seeing this video:
"Wait, we don't have a capital city?" --- aaand I was successfully clickbaited xD
Me, a Swiss person seeing this vidéo :
Wh... Wha... WHAT ?
This is a oversimplified version of a oversimplified history of Switzerland
0:55 "every other country in the world" _shows Swiss flag_
Feel the bern
Big oof
Nah
Feel the Kehrsatz
I see what you did there
My friend asked me; "What is the Capital of Switzerland?"
*I said; "Capital S" then casually walked away*
This is so bad that it's good.
This should be the most liked comment
Nah dudes, you guys deserve this meme I made, hats off to you chads
4th reply
When this is a huge comment I'll be 4th
Portugal also doesn’t have an official capital city. Lisbon is just the de facto capital, but was never declared anywhere as being the capital. The Kings just moved and started governing from there without any declaration.
4:24 "The french speaking city of *LASAGNA* "
Switzerland: Has Bern, Lausanne and Bellinzoa
Netherlands: Has Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam.
South Africa: Has Cape Town, Pretoria and Bloemfontein.
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Singapore: Has Singapore...
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Luxembourg has..... Luxembourg. Hong Kong has.....Hong Kong. The Vatican has....the church?
that awkward moment when the country is the capital.
EU: has Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg (even Frankfurt?)
@@edipires15 the EU isn't a country
My family always wonders why I know so much random information on the most random stuff, half the time they think I'm making things up 😂
Bern is called the Bundesstadt. Great video and greetings from Bern
OK, so I live in Lasagne now.
That's interesting.
Does it means that Geneva is allowed to eat you? Oh sorry that’s already the case😏🤣
Don't forget the Chianti with your lausagna,
Greetings from Morges
Actually there are two legislative acts that stipulate that the Federal Parliament shall normally be settled in Bern and that all other major federal government entities shall too, including the Chancellerie.
By mean of these two acts, embassies are also settled in Bern.
Thus, having the Federal Parliament, the federal government’s entities and the embassies on Bern’s soil, Bern became per se the capital city of Switzerland
The UK has no law stating where its capital is either, but I think we're all agreed it's London.
Fact is, what we regard as the capital of a country is where its parliament and government are most commonly located, and on both counts that's Bern. The Federal Council, Federal Assembly and the headquarters of all 8 of the Federal Departments are in Bern.
When you know the answer of an HAI title before watching the video, you have achieved a superior state of existence.
So, Switzerland actually has a capital city - Bern - it's just not designated as the capital city in any legislation
but it's still the capital
4:00 bruh. I did NOT expect a Taylor Swift reference lmao
Loved it
HAI belongs with me! And all my Swiftie friends❤️😜
There is so much wrong with this.
While Bern is not the de jure capital (because there isn't any) it is the de facto capital. Meaning your whole video is about semantics.
1:45 The reason the "neighbors" didn't bother is that Switzerland was part of the Holy Roman Empire until 1648 and every bit that is now Switzerland was fought for and won by the Swiss confederation. It's not that Switzerland was not worth it, it was that Switzerland was so good at war, that it wasn't possible.
Switzerland was once famous for their warriors (why do you think the pope still has a Swiss guard).
3:57 Lucerne is smaller than Bern
4:00 Bern wasn't less intimidating, rather it was the opposite. In the middle ages Bern was the most powerful city not only in Switzerland but north of the Alps. Most of what is Switzerland was won by or with the help of Bernese troops. That's why the historic seat of the government was in Bern and why Bern was chosen as the "Bundesstadt/federal city".
4:26 There is literally no way you could pronounce "Lausanne" worse...
You're unfortunately absolutely right. I blame the lack of good sources in English about Switzerland, HAI videos are often a lot better than this. Also I might add the part about Switzerland being the result of "let's be even more peaceful" kind of flies into the face of the fact it was created after a civil war and decades of internal strife, after the Helvetic Republic collapsed to... internal strife. One thing though, I'd say that Berne was definitely among the most important cities in 1848 when it was decided, but it was not as most powerful or influential as it once was, and Zurich is probably not the capital because it was might have been seen as more of the centre of the liberal coalition at the time.
Most Half as Interesting videos are like that. It is the reason you watch Half as Interesting.
@@JonathanNilens Yeah well maybe. That they're about semantics certainly. But the background I still think could have been a bit better.
Very few countries have laws specifying what their capital is. Normally the capital is the place where the legislature is. The United Kingdom, for example, has NO written constitution. The USA is unusual in having the capital's location officially written into law prior to WW2.
The capital of Switzerland is ‘S’
Good one
thats funny !!!
Capital* 😂
If you yell it then all the letters are capital
@@455fardeen 😶😅
The Swiss: "Lausanne"
Sam: "Lasagna"
There are a lot of fellow swiss citizens who seem to be unaware of this. But I can assure you, we did learn that stuff in school. People probably forget about it, because its a rather boring fact for some 12 year old to remember. (Im Gägesatz zum endoplasmatische Retikulum lol)
überläbenswichtig: ER
Switzerland: has a capital city
HAI: mmmh.. no you don’t
That's nothing new for us :)
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Switzerland: doesn't have a capital
HAI:yes
1:44
What do you mean, *Chuchichäschtli* sounds beautiful!
Almost as beautiful as *Chääschüechli* and *Chriesisteichüssi* .
We have better stuff like Knabenschiessen - Abehuerre - plafoniere - chnösperlää - chrääzäbuggälä - Chuttäfäckä hangä and oder, oder?
These comments are scaring me. Why are there so many 'CH's and that thing>ä
@@liamohhyeahh th-cam.com/video/azLXjxtioTw/w-d-xo.html
Btw, 'ch' in Swiss German is pronounced like in Scottish 'loch' in most cases.
@@oreopithecus i may not have understood a thing but thats one the funniest things ive ever seen
November 1848, the National Council and the Council of States chose the city of Berne as the federal seat of Switzerland, but it is not called the capital but the federal city. Many guests from abroad are surprised that Bern is the "capital" of Switzerland.
Instructions unclear, kids parents gave me a concussion.
"Bern is not the only capital city of Switzerland"
South Africa and Netherlands: welcome to the party, brother
Why the Netherlands? Amsterdam is our official capital city and the biggest. Den Hagua is just where politics are done.
Glad you know that
@@harry5326 Well, don't now if you mean me by that but as a Dutch citizen it's kind of logical to have such info don't you think?
@@axolotl-guy9801 I was talking about how South Africa technically has no capital city
@@harry5326 aha, why is that actually? (I don't know).
As s German from the south of Germany with a few friends in Switzerland:
Bern is called "Bundesstadt Bern" (federal city of Bern) in official documents. Everyone refers to Bern as the capital. In Bern German and French are spoken (street names are German, many road signs are bilingual). Close to nobody in Bern speaks Italian (well nobody outside of Ticino does).
They don’t speak french in bern they speak french in bern canton that’s not the same
@@lodu8731
German is by far the dominant language in Bern (city of Bern), but French (as a second language) is spoken on a B/C level by a large part of the population.
@@rctrulez yeah ok if we see this in that way that’s true👌🏼
"they were doing yodeling battles instead, where the true loser. . .is everyone!" 😭😂😂
Not mentioned: the couple of cantons that also speak Romansh
Eben
Romansh is as far as I know only a national language and not an official language. For instance, the official website of the Swiss confederation is not translated in Romansh.
Is there anyone outside Grison that speak Romansh?
@@Cyril8204 doesn’t seem like it but I’m no Swiss expert
@@BenjaminFaltin it actually is for the most part. www.admin.ch/gov/rm/pagina-iniziala.html
Switzerland:
A miniature Holy Roman Empire, but more democratic.
More like smaller version of EU, oh wait is EU the nu HRE?
@@berthold64 In the case of the EU, not really.
its more a federation that countries can leave when they want to (at least, right now).
The HRE was far more complicated, had its own rules, laws, taxes, etc than the EU currently is.
Hell, members of the HRE could war on each other and not cause too many issues for the ""empire""
Switzerland is a confederation; considers itself one country made up of semi-sovereign entities with more authority than the central government.
It's funny say that when you learn that the first federal language was Latin. 😅
They used Latin so that no official language would be more important than the other ones
@@heilwyrnzahkul3065 Don't they still use Latin on coins? (The Swiss, I mean)
@@jeffbenton6183 yes they still do.
I wish you'd have made this video like 3 months earlier. I did a presentation project on Switzerland and told everyone that Bern was the capital.
Well. Tomorrow you stand in front of your class and tell them otherwise. I, a Swiss, demand this from you. Otherwise we'll ban all Cheese and Chocolate supply to your country.
@@oof5020 NO NOT THE CHEESE
“I’m going to let you in on a little secret.
You’re adopted...wrong secret”
Ngl, I'm having a bit of Mandela effect moment right now. I was absolutely convinced that Zürich was the capital.
HAI: *says Switzerland is the only country without the capital*
Nauru: *AHEM*
Na what
Is that in Africa or something like that
I mean, the whole country is smaller than a lot of capital cities.
@@milosm9280 It's one of the island nation in the Pacific Island group.
@@lordofthefries4140 yup exactly!
If I'm ever adopting a child, I'm showing them this video and stopping it at exactly 0:28 then stare at them in silence
Wow😂
Bern is actually the Switzerland’s “capital” because of the back story Bern has, powerful army for one of the reasons, and there are 4 national languages, one being the Romansh, talked by about 10’000 people, but is actually never seen anywhere else, when our supermarkets usually show every languages (french, german and Italian) on every product, wherever you live.
Also, the federal council (our “president”, but there are seven) has to have at least be composed of 3 people who are from French cantons and talk French, and 3 people coming from German cantons, to make it fair for everyone
0:37 Sam says "ask your birth parents" the proceeds to show footage of *two women*
yeah that's 'cause "you're adopted". ( 0:27 )
This man just said Lasagna instead of Lausanne
Bern is the capital city of Switzerland, it just doesn't say that in Swiss law, because there is no need for the law to declare the capital city. The law is just as effective regardless of whether or not it says where the capital city is. Other countries' laws only do that largely because they're copying the US. Switzerland doesn't do things just because they see other countries doing them, which I admire hugely.
Exactly. Loads of countries would have no capital if it needed an explicit law to make one.
0:21 took me a second to notice
Nah you know I looked there first
Lol I saw that the second time
you just said "Lausanne" the way lasagna is pronounced and I can't get enough of it
The fact that the whole government take place in a city is the definition of a capitale, even though, as you correctly said, it is written nowhere for Switzerland.
y enter here to see what's the swiss capital, but find i'm adopted instead
(sad human noises)
Rest of the world: So Switzerland is your capital Bern, Zurich or Geneva?
Switzerland: Yes
From a juristical view there is no official Capital in Switzerland, but there is a 'de facto' capital which has no difference from a usual Capital city :-)
You know what the best part of being Swiss is?
Well... The flag's a big plus
You're a smart turtle
Unlike the one flag from a certain neighbor state
🇦🇹
out.
Person: "Bern is the captial of Switzerland."
Me: "I am about to end this person's whole career."
"Don't stop until they start crying"
Da haben hier einige Schweizer in der Schule nicht aufgepasst. Die Schweiz hat keine Hauptstadt, Bern ist offiziell die Bundesstadt.