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Re: Essential Dutch

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, February 15, 2004, 21:22
Trebor Jung wrote:

> Merhaba! > > Andreas wrote: > > "Dutch is essentially a mix of German, Swedish and English" > > How so? In vocabulary? Syntax? ... How did Swedish influence Dutch? > Didn't French influence it too (lexically), and didn't the Dutch > royalty speak French a long time ago - and so a lot of French words > got into the language? Do people curse with diseases in Swedish or German?
This is just on impressions of languages, rather than actual descriptions. My Norwegian relatives claim it looks halfway between Norwegian and German. I think it's halfway between English and German. Maybe Dutch is just the 'default' Germanic language.