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

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
> > That's why it is so funny to translate things literally. This kind of humour
> > gave birth to phenomena like "Double-Dutch",
>
> BTW, the phrase "double Dutch" in English means bureaucratese or other overly
> technical jargon, not any kind of language mixture.
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I learned "double Dutch" as a kind of gibberish code for English:  vowels remain
the same, but consonants are replaced with whole syllables:  bub, cash, dud,
fuf, gug, hatch, etc..


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