From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 3:27:58 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 7584737B410; Wed, 22 May 2002 03:27:44 -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 g4MAReT29654; Wed, 22 May 2002 12:27:41 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020522190030.M45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020521103710.C71209@lpt.ens.fr> <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522183052.J45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522190030.M45715@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 12:20:42 +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 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 7:00 PM +0930 2002/05/22, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> Nah. Dutch numbers are much more fun. Where we would say >> "Ninety-five", they say the equivalent of "Five-and-Ninety". > > So do the Germans. Dutch *is* German, remember? Uh, no. It's not. They may be closely related, but they are not the same. I took German lessons while I was in third grade, from a lady down the road who also ran a daycare center. Turns out she was the only member of her family to survive Auschwitz, but I didn't learn that until much later. Before I moved to Belgium, I remembered more German from that year than I've learned French over the past three years. And Dutch still sounds to me like a cat hacking up a hairball. ;-) Moreover, I have friends in the US who are fluent in German, and they tell me they are always screwed up when they hear Dutch, because the words are formed more like German, but the rhythm and word sounds are much more like English -- so they feel like their brain is being split in half. -- 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