Re: CHAT: Dutch

Boudewijn Rempt writes:
 > On Thursday 11 April 2002 22:09, Tim May wrote:
 > > Boudewijn Rempt writes:
 > >  > On Thursday 11 April 2002 20:50, John Cowan wrote:
 > >  > > Boudewijn Rempt scripsit:
 > >  > > > Purely in alphabetic order, purely in alphabetic order. No slight
 > >  > > > intended, indeed not, wouldn't occur to us, not at all.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Don't try to bamboozle *me*.  Had the order been alphabetic, German
 > >  > > would be first and Dutch last....
 > >  >
 > >  > Reverse alphabetic? No, I can see this is not going to work...
 >
 > > I believe he's pointing out that "Duits" comes before "Nederlands".
 > >
 >
 > Of course!
 >
 > > Well, that's some time killed finding an online English-Dutch dictionary...
 >
 > Kennelijk ben je erin geslaagd!

Apparently it's not a very _good_ dictionary - the best translation I
can make of that is "Obvious basket you therein something [maybe to do
with being beaten]". o_0

Hmmm...

Deutsch         Dutch   Allemand        Duits
Englisch        English Anglais         Engels
Französisch     French  Francais        Frans
Niederländisch  German  Neérlandais     Nederlands

All the languages except English have some kind of "Holland" based
alternative for Dutch, but it doesn't change the position.

Weighting them all equally, it does look like the first and last
positions should be reversed relative to the order they took on the
boat - if we're really committed to being alphabetical, that is.

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