Hi, On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Maarten Vermeulen <netraa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes well, > > Dutch is a germanic language as well, even though we learn englisch on > school: 20% can't english 45% not or bad and the others can speak, write and > understand it fine. > That's why we translate dutch. Because the most people can't english and > because they like it in there own language. (me not english/american is > fine)
There's a lot of interesting trivia about things like this. I'm no scholar, sadly, but it's definitely interesting. I was going to ramble about a lot of things. First of all, King Willem-Alexander is related to the British monarchs, right? I'm pretty sure I read that once before. Even the Queen of England has a German name (Battenberg / Mountbatten). They're related to half of Europe, though! I also heard recently (but could be misunderstanding!) that German "was war das?" is the same as Dutch "wat was dat?" (which sounds much closer to English). Too bad ol' Professor Tolkien is dead or I'm sure he could give us lots of interesting tidbits (since he knew a lot of that stuff, e.g. Beowulf [Old English, which is extremely different to modern]). Although I hate politics, did you know that the eighth U.S. president was Martin Van Buren? (Wikipedia says he was born in New York, baptized as "Maarten"! Also, "most of the townsfolk, including the Van Burens, spoke Dutch at home"!) So yes, it's a small world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
