Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:57:53 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020523115753.Q45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <p0511172db91120b9a421@[10.0.1.4]> References: <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111705b90fe1afee46@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111723b910fac1be02@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522183052.J45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <p0511172ab9111215358b@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522190030.M45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <p0511172db91120b9a421@[10.0.1.4]>
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On Wednesday, 22 May 2002 at 12:20:42 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. Ah, you're talking about High German, the language spoken in Germany. That derived from (mainly) old Saxon and Barb^Hvarian, with a significant influence of Anglo-Saxon via the English missionaries who converted the German tribes about 1300 years ago. Dutch derives from old Frisian, another German dialect. Like English, they're both Western Germanic languages. > And Dutch still sounds to me like a cat hacking up a hairball. ;-) Indeed :-) > 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. Yes, Dutch sounds just plain funny if you speak English and German. 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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