What was I thinking?

When I asked an Irish friend to help with German grammatics? Guess I was leaning on the fact that she's been here for 20 years, and is fluent in (yes, exactly!) Swiss German. Not the same at all.

But the fact is that Swiss German is not an official language, which I love to shove in the faces of the Swiss (and I can tell you, it doesn't make me popular). But it isn't. Even though I've heard that a dictionary actually exists for Swiss German. I just wonder which dialect they chose to put in there, since all of them are different. And the language (since not being official) doesn't exist in writing. Meaning you can spell however you want. Now THAT is a redeeming quality!