Triple language, to be accurate.
In a small eastern part German is the official language.
Only a handfull of people are linving in those quarters, they're easily
ignored.
Bart
Citeren Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> The perils of living in a dual language nation. And both of them
> dialects!
> AndrewF
>
>
> On 17/01/2006, at 9:28 PM, iwert wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, I just wrote it in dutch then... :-)
> > at least the pronunciation was correct...
> >
> > Thanks Jez!
> >
> > btw, the spelling rationalisation was turned back again... now it
> > is de
> > nouveau: cadeau!
> > (just like bureau)
> >
> > Iwert.
> >
> >
> >> Andrew,
> >>
> >> I've tried to learn some Dutch while living here in Belgium (Iwert's
> >> country) and something I've found interesting is that plurals of
> >> foreign-derived words have an apostrophe added! I don't know if it's
> >> a formal rule of the langauge but it's pretty universal. Plurals of
> >> Dutch words are formed by adding "s" or "en" (just like English as in
> >> "children") but if the word is of foreign derivation by adding 's.
> >>
> >> The Dutch also attempted some spelling rationalization some time ago,
> >> spelling foreign words as they are pronounced. "Cadeau" (French for
> >> gift) became "kado" and the plural (cadeaux) became kado's.
> >>
> >> br
> >> Jez
> >>
> >> ps - Iwert probably meant Zebra's lines - yes, it should have been
> >> zebras' lines (stripes)
> >>
> >> On 1/17/06, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Zebra's what?
> >>> Sorry, I know English isn't your first language (and my second
> >>> language is daylight) but the Apostrophe Squad will be around to
> >>> 'talk' to you quite soon! :)
> >>> AndrewF
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 17/01/2006, at 8:27 PM, iwert wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> BTW, I very much like the empirical way of testing, much more than
> >>>> "scientific" data. Who ever photographs lines?
> >>>> (Zebra's may be an exception)
> >>>>
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