2015-12-24 20:31 GMT+01:00 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com>: > 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. >
*mean laugh* :) > > I was going to ramble about a lot of things. First of all, King > Willem-Alexander is related to the British monarchs, right? Could be, but I hate him. Yes, I as his citizen hate him. He gets as 'pocket money' 27 million (USD $29,593,701.00) per week! He gets that money from our taxes, and he doesn't have to pay taxes. And the only thing he does is reading the letter on 'prinsjesdag', that's once a year (3th Teusday of September). On 'prinsjesdag' the king (named in my familly: Royal orange.) reads all the new things the goverment wants to do. Usually increase taxes. :( > 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]). > Yes, 'was war das' is indeed in Dutch 'wat was dat?' and in English 'what was that?'. > > 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"!) > No, I didn't know that. My country (Netherlands, of course) is usually known in the U.S. as 'soft drugs are allowed' and I heard something about 'being drunk is allowed'. Yes, soft drugs are allowed and being drunk is allowed but of course you aren't allowed to drive at that moment (wait 1 hour for 1 bear). LONG LIVE EDUCATION!!!!!!!!!!! Here are some things that you amaricans probably find strange: http://www.weekendnotes.com/interesting-facts-about-netherlands/ > So yes, it's a small world. > Indeed :) Maarten > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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