Should the Dutch language be renamed into Hollish?

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Colon™


I think it's mostly improper translation and confusing terminology that's the problem, not so much disagreement over when the languages split. With what you referred to as "German" you probably meant "Germanisch", or "Germanic" in English. The proper translation for "German" is (modern-day) "Deutsch".

I meant somewhat in between. I meant "central European Germanic".

[alva]

Re: Should the Dutch language be renamed into Hollish?

Originally posted by Aivo½so
Finland - Finnish
Holland - Hollish (makes a lot more sense, doesn't it)

Discuss

Soon it will be called flemish.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Locutus
I think it's funny

Of course, I'm not from Holland

Okay, that's it . My proposal is to give everything east of the IJssel to Germay and everything south of the Rhine to Belgium, so we are left with a nice, small country. So we won't have to listen to funny accents any more and it saves us a lot of tax-payers' money too.

[alva]

Thanks, but no thanks.

[DaShi]

Hollish, sounds like a language invented on Red Dwarf.

[alva]

Toch gechellig...

[Hueij]

Originally posted by alva
Thanks, but no thanks.

Please?? You'll also get all the coffeeshops in Noord-Brabant and Limburg.

[Colon™]

Shut up alva.

We'd be happy to take it. You keep Rotterdam though.

[alva]

Too late there mate, we can do all the smoking we want already (though not in public, I think. Very confusing law).

Hmm, let us first get rid of the south(*), we'll talk after that (especially if it comes with a few decent football players).


* there's an outside chance this might actually happen in the next few years.

[Locutus]

With the current state of the nation I think the people south of the Rhine and east of the IJssel would be getting the better part of that deal, Hueij...

Twente for independence Then we'd get to play Champions League every year

[Imran Siddiqui]

I didn't read the thread aside from the OP, so apologies if anyone has mentioned it, but it should be called Hollandaise, so it matches the delectable sauce.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Locutus

Twente for independence Then we'd get to play Champions League every year

That reminds me of a cartoon in an Italian football magazine (Guerrin Sportivo), where two guys were discussing Bossi's idea of an independent Padania and one said: "I'm all for it. That means 8 clubs in Champions League, 6 in UEFA Cup..."

[germanos]

Originally posted by Colon™
We'd be happy to take it. You keep Rotterdam though.

[GhengisFarb™]

Originally posted by Locutus
The Netherlands is NOT called 'Holland', it's called the Netherlands You could make a case for calling it Netherlandish (which is basically what it's called in Dutch), but not any kind of variation of Holland, which is a province of the Netherlands (or rather 2 provinces these days).

Whats the meaning of the Nether part anyway? Its like the Netherregion of Europe or something. Course the Holes from Holland seem to make more sense now that I think about it, what with the Holes being a significant part of the Netherregion.

[Colon™]

"Netherlands" is a translation of "Nederland", which is derived from "neder landen", meaning "low lands". So "Netherlands" is actually just a synonym of "Low Lands".