Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:17:04 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Yana Lehey <yana@lemis.com> Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <p0511172cb911202a8282@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <20020522185914.L45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> <p05111701b90fb2744154@[10.9.8.215]> <20020521103710.C71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111703b90fc048bd8f@[10.0.1.4]> <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111705b90fe1afee46@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <p05111720b910f739ea12@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522182914.I45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <p05111729b9111051cbd5@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522185914.L45715@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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