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

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:37:33 +0100
=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= <ijzeren_jan@...>
writes:
> That's why it is so funny to translate things literally. This kind
> of humour
> gave birth to phenomena like "Double-Dutch", "Duitslands", etc.
> Unfortunately,
> t is understandable only for those who know both languages. A poem of
> John
> O'Mill would be probably incomprehendible for an Englishman who
> doesn't know Dutch.
> Jan
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Could you give examples of these phenomena?  The only "Double-Dutch" i
know of is a type of jumprope game with two jumpropes.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "tii raflep suddari.hlao nga'amsh;
  akh ikh raflep uzoi-tzat, i raflep-a tza'aurdzaasht-a uz,
  raflep-a ngausgaur sudtub."
     ~ song of the BaMbuti in troubled times (Rokbeigalmki version)

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