Re: creolego "cannibalizes" AND "phagocytates" (wasRe: Gaelic

En réponse à Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...>:

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> If a store actually has that, it looks very silly and old fashioned.
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On the contrary! When I made the remark, I was answered (by a colleague, hardly
older than me, and certainly not old-fashioned) that any other way would look
illiterate and silly. Also, I've seen this not only in The Hague, but also in
Eindhoven, Amsterdam (just get out of the station and look up the roof of a
building in front of you and you'll see it), Rotterdam and even Utrecht
although I never even got out of the station there! If it was so silly and old
fashioned, explain me then why virtually everyone does that (and when they
don't use that one, they use the special letter which looks like a capital J
with a small I on the top left hand corner, or even a Y). It may reflect the
situation in Deventer, or maybe your own opinion, but it certainly does not
reflect the reality of facts. And I just have to walk on the streets during one
afternoon to see that I'm right. I hate to correct a native, since I'm only a
foreigner, but when the native is so wrong, I feel obliged to do so. Moreover,
you're giving a wrong image on the subject of the "ij", or at least an image
which doesn't represent correctly what's happening in the country, so I'm
obliged to correct you.

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> I don't think that's correct at all.
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Then reality is incorrect. Sorry, but I'm not gonna twist the facts because of
your opinion. I'm just telling what I see and experience nearly every day (in
fact, every day that I go out shopping), and I think it's an overwhelming
evidence that I'm right and you're not.

Christophe.

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