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~Bachelor of Science Marijke I'm not the devil, I just work for her. What spoon? There is no spoon. According to Zeke, it's a cat. ~NeoMatrix "Apparently we're on the wrong side. Or the right side if you like winning." ~Spike Sa'ar Chasm: Too far south you hit Belgium. catalina marina: Not in Limburg you don't. ![]() Sa'ar Chasm: You do if you go south in the right way. |
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George Orwell gives meaning to TopHatMan\'s life. Opium, Princess Heroine of Laudanum...Part of The Morphine Party: The Party For Not... Crushing... Me? :shock: Opium. Don\'t take drugs, just read them. Please vote Morphine! ![]() Needing more sleep since before 2003 |
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![]() People like Rudy Carrell or Linda De Mol, who are originally Dutch, have long been show icons here in Germany and been speaking German for decades, but you can still clearly hear their accent. I find it kinda cute, myself, but then, I'm one of those superior snotty central Germans who thinks that the Bavarians need to get a damn clue. Ah, cultural diversity. Gatac[/color ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() [color=#000000 ![]() ![]() Yeah, Germans from that region often call us, and I can just speak Dutch to them. :lol: (I refuse to speak German, unless strictly necessary.) It's also a well-known fact that [i ![]() ![]() ![]()
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~Bachelor of Science Marijke I'm not the devil, I just work for her. What spoon? There is no spoon. According to Zeke, it's a cat. ~NeoMatrix "Apparently we're on the wrong side. Or the right side if you like winning." ~Spike Sa'ar Chasm: Too far south you hit Belgium. catalina marina: Not in Limburg you don't. ![]() Sa'ar Chasm: You do if you go south in the right way. |
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Katy: Can I have the skill 'drive car off bridge and have parachute handy'? Justin: It's kind of a limited skill. Greg: Depends on how often you drive off bridges. - d02 Quotes |
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~Bachelor of Science Marijke I'm not the devil, I just work for her. What spoon? There is no spoon. According to Zeke, it's a cat. ~NeoMatrix "Apparently we're on the wrong side. Or the right side if you like winning." ~Spike Sa'ar Chasm: Too far south you hit Belgium. catalina marina: Not in Limburg you don't. ![]() Sa'ar Chasm: You do if you go south in the right way. |
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Katy: Can I have the skill 'drive car off bridge and have parachute handy'? Justin: It's kind of a limited skill. Greg: Depends on how often you drive off bridges. - d02 Quotes |
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![]() ![]() Gatac[/color ![]() ![]() [color=#000000 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() [quote ![]() ![]() Plattdeutsch = Low(land) German, which is more closely related to Dutch and Frisian. Hochdeutsch = High(land) German, which is that foreign language spoken by the Bavarians and especially the Austrians. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hochdeutsch = High(land) German, which is that foreign language spoken by the Bavarians and especially the Austrians. ![]() ![]() So you don't consider Dutch a foreign language? ![]() [quote ![]() ![]() I'm not even sure [i ![]() ![]() But hey, my grand[i ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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~Bachelor of Science Marijke I'm not the devil, I just work for her. What spoon? There is no spoon. According to Zeke, it's a cat. ~NeoMatrix "Apparently we're on the wrong side. Or the right side if you like winning." ~Spike Sa'ar Chasm: Too far south you hit Belgium. catalina marina: Not in Limburg you don't. ![]() Sa'ar Chasm: You do if you go south in the right way. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Most Dutch people speak better English than the average North American, I've found. [quote ![]() ![]() Bavarians are the Newfies of Germany, but without the fish. [quote ![]() ![]() Says the Scotsman. [quote ![]() ![]() That's what you get for changing the dialect in every village. Go mass communications! *g* Actually, I believe there's a continuum of Germanic dialects from the North Sea to the Polish border, which is why Cat can understand the Platt Germans (although not Dutch people from the North, which is baffling). Each dialect can more or less make out what its neighbours are saying, but the changes add up, so someone from Hamburg can't make sense of someone from Brandenburg unless they speak Frankenstein. Same deal for the Romance languages. Supposedly there's a Portuguese-> Galicia -> Castilian -> Catalan -> French -> Provencal -> Italian continuum. *pedant mode off*[/color ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() On the note of dialects, I just found out that a word I've always used as "depart", isn't Dutch. I'm perplexed. From some words I can imagine it'd be dialect, but this one is just so.. Dutch! Well, apparently not. :eyeroll:[/color ![]()
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~Bachelor of Science Marijke I'm not the devil, I just work for her. What spoon? There is no spoon. According to Zeke, it's a cat. ~NeoMatrix "Apparently we're on the wrong side. Or the right side if you like winning." ~Spike Sa'ar Chasm: Too far south you hit Belgium. catalina marina: Not in Limburg you don't. ![]() Sa'ar Chasm: You do if you go south in the right way. |
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~Bachelor of Science Marijke I'm not the devil, I just work for her. What spoon? There is no spoon. According to Zeke, it's a cat. ~NeoMatrix "Apparently we're on the wrong side. Or the right side if you like winning." ~Spike Sa'ar Chasm: Too far south you hit Belgium. catalina marina: Not in Limburg you don't. ![]() Sa'ar Chasm: You do if you go south in the right way. |
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