Re: OT: newbie
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 16, 2002, 11:56 |
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:
> > BTW, I'm not Dutch, so no d in my name... and my middle name is very
> > optional, despite what the mail headers say.
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> Sorry, my mistake. As a matter of fact, I am Dutch, and my middle name is
> Hendrik, too, but with d this time.
Interesting. Considering how English changes /ms/ to /mps/ (Thompson
< Tom's son), it wouldn't be too bizarre to have changed /nr/ to /ndr/.
In a slightly different universe, we'd see movies with Hendry Fonda....
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