Klarinet Archive - Posting 000795.txt from 2000/08

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] knowing dutch
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 04:20:18 -0400

There should be a space between "Tysk" and "men". Does that make it
clearer?
(It's *Norwegian* this time...).
Roger S.

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 fsheim@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:07:16 -0400
> From: fsheim@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] knowing dutch
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> Fred
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> At 06:53 PM 8/24/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Kj=E6r Rien=20
> >
> >Begge av mine foreldre var f@-----. De omplasserte til=20
> >forente Stater ti @-----. Jeg taler Tyskmen jeg=20
> >ikke taler Hollandsk. Jeg brukte en oversetter p=E5 internet!=20
> >
> >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 writt=
en
> Dutch. Neil sounds
> >> American to me, Leupold sounds like Germany or Austria, so I started t=
o
> 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?"
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> >> I know it has little to do with our main subject, I just wonder.
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >> Rien
> >>=20
> >
> >
> >
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