From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 19:25:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEAF337B416 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 19:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 16CC1812E5; Thu, 23 May 2002 11:55:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:55:09 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Brad Knowles Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Yana Lehey Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020523115509.P45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Wednesday, 22 May 2002 at 12:17:04 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. And a number of Dutch and Flemish people I know. > I've been told by Flemish and Dutch speakers alike that the > languages are "very" different, The differences I understand to exist are: 1. Pronunciation. 2. The notable absence of French-derived words in Flemish. I have shown both Flemish and Dutch people texts written in one of the languages (we still don't know which), and they couldn't tell them apart. > 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. No, I haven't heard that. > Let's not even get started on dialects. ;-) Why not? That's really what we're talking about. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message