Re: Zelandish (was: 2nd pers. pron. for God)

On 09/20 15:26  Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à andrew <hobbit@...>:
> > >
> > Mmmmm, nice warm thought.  One never knows when one might need an
> > exterminator of evil undead!
>
> Well, I prefer doing the dirty job myself, it's much more rewarding ;))) .
>
Also saves on unnecessary expenses.

> Here in the Netherlands I'm lucky enough to have every Wednesday evening my
> three favourite series: Buffy, Charmed and Angel, one after the other :)) . And
> since Sailor Moon finally arrived in Holland, I'm the happiest man in the
> world ;)))) .
>
I'll forgive you for Charmed, although my flatmate likes it.  In NZ the
living dead who schedule programmes played Buffy seasons 1-5; Angel
season 1; and are currently playing Buffy season 6.  My respect for
soulless programming schedulers with no appreciation of concurrent
series depreciates daily.  They even had the good humour to take off
Enterprise mid-season!  Although it resumes tonight.

Tragically I have not been initiated into Sailor Moon.  It has not
played on NZ television.

> > I have also seen in some words the plural verb ending lose dental stop
> > in the ending, but I can't think of an example off hand.  The process
> > is
> > -ede > -eje > -ee > -e.
> >
>
> Nice, it adds some nice irregularity to the weak verbs :) . I suppose it
> happens only with verbs whose root already ends with a vowel...
>
I found an example today when I was catching up on journal entries.  The
verb freelse, to celebrate, has the singular past tense (ik) freelsed,
(I) celebrated, and the plural past tense (wy) freelse, (we) celebrated.


> Ha... Kura... Too bad Qt is not free anymore for Windows (I'd nearly install
> Linux just for it, but I'm not of a hacker enough to install it the way I want.
> And there are now so many different Linux distributions that I don't know which
> one to choose...).
>
As for me, I'm having the joys of running Linux, while still managing to
remain a Linux-Dummy.

- andrew.
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Andrew Smith, Intheologus                         hobbit@griffler.co.nz
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