Re: CHAT: Dutch
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 11, 2002, 17:53 |
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Le cavallero scripsit:
> The father smiles:"Well, we dutch all know a little german, don't we?"
The other point of view, of course, is found in Johann Peter Hebel's
classic story "Kannitverstan".
I took a boat ride in the Netherlands once, and noticed that the scenery
was being described in Dutch, English, French, and German in that order:
by the time the German version was being spoken, the boat had invariably
moved on past whatever was being described. So all the Germans had to
face aft....
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John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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