Re: OT: Afrikaans

Jan het geskryf...

> > In addition, there are no inflections for person as there are in
> > Dutch: Ek is "I am", jy is "you are", hy is "he is"...
> True. That is one of those things that make Afrikaans so funny.
Whereas for me, having bought "Teach Yourself Afrikaans" before I bought "Teach
Yourself Dutch", Dutch always strikes me as old-fashioned, complicated
Afrikaans! ;-)

Though I can imagine that it probably sounds as funny to you as an English-derived
language that conjugated "I is", "you is", "we is", etc. would sound to me. :-)

> BTW You didn't mention one particular feature of Afrikaans that distinguishes
> it from Dutch: the double negation.
Whoops! Yeah, that's a biggie. Thanks for mentioning it!

-- Tomasz