Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:55:09 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: 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: <20020523115509.P45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <p0511172cb911202a8282@[10.0.1.4]> References: <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> <p0511172cb911202a8282@[10.0.1.4]>
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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
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