Klarinet Archive - Posting 000789.txt from 2000/08

From: fsheim@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] knowing dutch
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:10:11 -0400

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Fred

At 07:05 PM 8/24/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Rien,
>
>Mijn vorig dep@-----. Verrichten u verstaan op?
>
>Neil
>
>> --- Rien Stein <rstein@-----.nl> wrote:
>> It was quite a surprise to me to see that on this list some non-Dutch,
non-Flamish people with
>> obvously an American background knew a little Dutch. My surprise grwe
even more when I had my
>> first telephone contact with David Glenn: he addressed me in an
excellent Dutch. It seems
>there
>> has been an American ambassador in Moscow, who even after 25 years of
service in that city
>> didn't know the slightest little bit of the Russian language, nor even
was able to read the
>> kyrillic alfabet ... !
>>=20
>> Now I learn Neil Leupold also is able to understand at least the written
Dutch. Neil sounds
>> American to me, Leupold sounds like Germany or Austria, so I started to
wonder "Neil, who are
>> you? Why did you learn Dutch?" And of course: "Are there other
non-Dutch, non-Flamish people
>on
>> this list, that know Dutch?"
>>=20
>> I know it has little to do with our main subject, I just wonder.
>>=20
>>=20
>> Rien
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