"Kannitverstan" (was: Funny words)

=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:

> Yes, one could make up a long list of such words in Dutch and German. I've even
> seen a story (in German as spoken by a Dutch person who doesn't know German
> well), which was really funny. Perhaps I can find it and post it later.
From the other side there is Johann Peter Hebel's classic 1809 tale
"Kannitverstan" about the moral reflections that mutual incomprehension
can arouse in a young German who is in Amsterdam for the first time:

http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/anekdote/kannit.htm

Here's the story in English:
http://www.christopherlydon.org/viewtopic.php?topic=887&forum=8

And here it is in Latin:

http://digilander.libero.it/Marziale/Grex/exempla/hebel.html

And here's the story in Ido (I think):

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/8009/2ma-Lektolibroc.html

I wonder if there is a Dutch translation anywhere.

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