Re: CHAT: Opperlands
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 12, 1999, 20:51 |
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On Wed, 12 May 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> James Campbell wrote:
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> > Would anyone be so kind as to enlighten me as to what Opperlands is? My
> > knowledge of Dutch doesn't go this far...
>
> A rather silly pun on "Nederlands", which is the name of the
> language in itself: not "Netherlandish" but "Upperlandish".
>
It's also in the title of book by Battus 'Opperlandse taal & letterkunde',
a compilation of columns of linguistic playfulness in one our
most serious newspapers, the NRC-Handelsblad.
Boudewijn Rempt | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt