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Re: Essential Dutch

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, February 19, 2004, 6:47
Quoting Felix Ahlner <felix_ahlner@...>:

> Andreas wrote: > > >Dutch is essentially a mix of German, Swedish and English, but tries to > >hide it by having alot of unnecessary double vowels and 'oe's everywhere. > > Or maybe rather "English is a mix of Frisian, Plattdeutsch and French"...?
Why chose? English is essentially Plattdeutsch as spoken by a Frisian pretending to be French. Andreas