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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