Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:20:42 +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 Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <p0511172db91120b9a421@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <20020522190030.M45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> <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>
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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, <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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