Re: CHAT: Dutch

Boudewijn Rempt Rempt wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > 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....
> >
>
>Purely in alphabetic order, purely in alphabetic order. No slight
>intended, indeed not, wouldn't occur to us, not at all.
Especially since it's perfectly normal not to take the alphabetic order in
ones own language ...

BTW, what's the Dutch word for "German"?

                                                 Andreas

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