From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 3:27:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9481837B41B; Wed, 22 May 2002 03:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by picard.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.19) with ESMTP id g4MARcT29577; Wed, 22 May 2002 12:27:38 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020522185914.L45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020521103710.C71209@lpt.ens.fr> <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522182914.I45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522185914.L45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Outlook will expire in 3 days. Please contact Microsoft about purchasing a new license. Remember: software piracy is a felony! Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:17:04 +0200 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Brad Knowles From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Yana Lehey Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 6:59 PM +0930 2002/05/22, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> Which is kind of why I think I'll like learning Dutch (as opposed >> to Flemish), because if I'm going to automatically "get it wrong" no >> matter what, I might as well have a little bit of fun tweaking their >> nose. > > But there's so little difference between Dutch and Flemish (apart from > the throat disease), and the Dutch are more tolerant. So sez you. I've been told by Flemish and Dutch speakers alike that the languages are "very" different, and I understand that there's probably as much or more animosity between Dutch vs. Flemish speakers as there is between Belgian/Wallonian French vs. French French speakers, and as there is between Flemish & Belgian/Wallonian French speakers. Let's not even get started on dialects. ;-) -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message