Re: OT: Official language post

Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:

> Andreas, I see that you master the List's official language to a very
> acceptable degree. I doubt whether I would have done equally well with a text
> in Swedish.
That's because Dutch is simple, easy, and obvious (until you get kicked in
the head by some lexeme like "opstanding", the meaning of which nobody would
ever guess), whereas Swedish is the province of Inscrutable Nordics who
decided to make themselves even more inscrutable than before.  Face it,
North Germanic is *weird*.

> ;))
--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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