Re: Intro and other
| From: | Gregory Gadow <gadow@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 31, 2001, 15:53 |
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Ah, interesting. I've been interested in Dutch, but every native speaker I
ask describes their language as a loud throat infection and continue
speaking English. Pity, because Dutch is (I've been told) the closest
"living" relative that English has.
Gregory Gadow
In Any Tongue
http://pub19.ezboard.com/binanytongue
>From: Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>
>
>Yes, that was a thread I started about how difficult it can be to
>distinguish word classes in some languages. The traditional example in
>Dutch
>"Heb jij leren pijpen", for those who missed it, can be translated as "Do
>you have leather pant legs? " or as "Have you learnt how to give
>blowjobs?",
>depending on how the word classes are defined. For some reason, the thread
>stayed under that title for quite a while, even though it was about
>something completely different by that time.
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