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Re: Essential Dutch

From:Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>
Date:Sunday, February 15, 2004, 21:14
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?

--Trebor

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