I'm very happy to see that you learned something while on vacation. Most tourists dont. Sorry to hear that the prices here were high. Hopefully they will do something here to bring the prices lower.
I don't think you will get that happening here much. Most hotels here have natives in their staff. ;-) -----Original Message----- From: G. Roderick Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 16 februari 2007 11:24 To: dev@native-lang.openoffice.org Subject: RE: [native-lang] International Mother Language Day - 21 February On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:19 -0400, Peter M. Damiana wrote: > Hi Roderick, > > Yes, you will find some people speaking papiamento on St. Maarten, but > there they speak mostly English & Dutch. There were two other Islands > missing, which are Saba and St. Eustatius, who also speak mostly english. > You did your homework, very good. One thing Aruba is no longer with > the Netherlands Antilles, they are on their own right now, but still > linked with the Netherlands. > Here's another link I think you'll enjoy....... http://www.curacao.com. > This is where I live. > Homework was finding a vacation spot. I ended up choosing Aruba because of two things price and time. While there, shortly after Aruba was granted independent status within the Netherlands, I learned some things about the islands. Curaçao was in the running but at the time had only one all-inclusive resort and it was pricey compared to those on Aruba. I evan learned to say hello, goodbye and thankyou in Papiemnento even though most of the staff at the resort were Venezuelan :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: G. Roderick Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: vrijdag 16 februari 2007 9:49 > To: dev@native-lang.openoffice.org > Subject: Re: [native-lang] International Mother Language Day - 21 > February > > In the Netherlands Antilles. The main islands are Aruba, Curaçao and > Bonaire but Paiamento may also be spoken on St Maartens. > > For a quick look see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles#Islands > > > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:47 +0100, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > > Thanks for your answer Peter. Well, we at the NLC insist on being > > language based and not country based (it solves so many political > > issues), but please, do post a link where you live, I have to say > > that I'm still sorry for not knowing where in the world Papiamento > > is spoken... :-/ > > > > Best, > > Charles. > > > > > > Peter M. Damiana a écrit : > > > Hi Charles, > > > > > > Slendid idea. +1 > > > Just let me know when and where I should send my picture and > > > perhaps a flag of my country?! ;-) > > > > > > Regards > > > Peter Damiana > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Charles-H.Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: donderdag 15 februari 2007 14:50 > > > To: dev@native-lang.openoffice.org > > > Subject: Re: [native-lang] International Mother Language Day - 21 > > > February > > > > > > Hello John, > > > > > > John McCreesh a écrit : > > >> International Mother Language Day - 21 February - should be a day > > >> of celebration for the Native Language Confederation. Through the > > >> work of our Native Language Projects, OOo is helping to preserve > > >> digitally endangered languages. What can you do in your language > > >> to promote the work of OOo on 21st February? > > >> > > >> See: http://www.unesco.org/education/imld2007 > > >> > > >> It would be great if we could announce the arrival of new > > >> languages, or the formation of new projects, or some statistics > > >> on how much progress we made since International Mother Language > > >> Day in 2006 > > >> (2006-7 was dedicated to "Languages and Cyberspace"). Has anyone > > >> any > > > statistics? > > >> All ideas welcome... > > > > > > I guess this was an idea of yours; but perhaps we could design a > > > web page where everybody of the NLC would upload his/her picture ... > > > Frappr might be a good idea. Anyone? > > > > > > Best, > > > Charles. > > >> John > > >> > > >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
