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Originally posted by Hueij
Great. Just leave out an "L" for comic effect. At our expense
Great. Just leave out an "L" for comic effect. At our expense
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Well, it could be worse... he could have taken both of your Ls...
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Oh man, I'm so going to make up some bad America jokes tonight...Originally posted by Trip
Well, it could be worse... he could have taken both of your Ls...
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again...Comment
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What we're dealing with is a dialect continuum - the split into "German" and "Dutch" is political, not linguistic. The Low German dialects of northern Germany (written forms of which were used for both administrative and literary texts in the middle ages) are linguistically closer to the Dutch dialects than to the High German dialects of central and southern Germany (incl Austria and the German-speaking bits of Switzerland).Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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For dialects that may be true, but the official national languages are no more alike than German and Swedish. The Lower Saxon dialects spoken natively in the east of the Netherlands and the north-west of Germany is considerably different from the official Dutch language spoken natively in the west of the Netherlands (and increasingly natively in the rest of the country as well). The differences are so big that someone from Amsterdam generally can't understand someone from Groningen or Twente (although in the last few decades the dialects are increasingly getting 'watered down' and more similar to official Dutch, and as such easier to understand for Westerners), and elderly people from the most isolated parts of Groningen and Twente (who were never thaught Dutch in school as is now common) can't understand people from Amsterdam. So that makes it fair to say they are different languages.Last edited by Locutus; April 24, 2006, 18:38.Comment
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Moreover, if people from the U.S. are called Yanks and people from France are called Franks, how come people from Skäne aren't called Skänks?Originally posted by Hueij
Great. Just leave out an "L" for comic effect. At our expense
If you look around and think everyone else is an *******, you're the *******.Comment
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shouldn't all languages be banned except for English?Comment
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