Re: OT: Afrikaans

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Funny, it's a case where intelligibility exists, but only in one direction
> :)) . I wonder how dialectologists handle such cases :))) .
It's common enough.  It's far easier for Portuguese-speakers to understand
Spanish than vice versa.

As for Afrikaans and Dutch, here's two from the Essentialist Explanations:

Afrikaans is essentially Dutch baby talk.
    --John Cowan

Conversely, Dutch is essentially Afrikaans as spoken by a corpse.
    --John Cowan


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John Cowan                                <jcowan@...>
http://www.reutershealth.com              http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Yakka foob mog.  Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork.  Chumble spuzz.
    -- Calvin, giving Newton's First Law "in his own words"

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