Re: Accents
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 14, 2002, 12:37 |
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En réponse à Dan Jones <dan@...>:
>
> I've always wanted to know this: in British English when discussing
> cannabis the basic unit of quantity is the ounce, then divided into a
> quarter, eighth and teenth (i.e. "sixteenth")- how would you say this
> in
> Dutch?
Well, knowing the high price of those things (not that I know it - I'm probably
the only French guy who ever went to Holland and never bought any soft drugs
there :))) -), I'd guess that they can't talk in "ons". I thought the gram was
common use...
Only asking because it's legal there, not because I immediately
> associate Holland with sex and drugs <g> I'd be like associating
> England
> with football hooligans and curry.
>
Do they have anything else? :)) Yes, fish and chips... :))))) (and awful taste
in decoration...)
Christophe.
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