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Re: OT: Afrikaans

From:Thomas Leigh <thomas@...>
Date:Monday, June 2, 2003, 13:56
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