Re: CHAT: Dutch
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 11, 2002, 17:55 |
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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.
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