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From: Philip Newton <pne-news-20011003@newton.digitalspace.net>
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Subject: Re: what is it?
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:34:17 +0200
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 02:14:13 +0200, "CeeJay" <newsgroups@ceejay.cjb.nOt>
wrote:

> > Right, here's my attempt at translating your reply:
> >
> > >Ja, jeg kunne l�se dit hollanske.
> >
> > Yes, i can read this Dutch.
> 
> Yes I could read your dutch.

So dit -> dein (jouw), not --> dies (deze).

> > >De to sprog minder om hinanden.
> >
> > But to speak it is more difficult.
> 
> The two languages resemble each other
> (you were WAY off *g*)

to -> two. Is "minder" related to English "mind", as in "they remind me
of one another"? And hinanden is maybe related to German "einander"?
(Dutch "elkaar")

> > >Der er er flere ligheder .. ogs� med tysk.
> >
> > Because .. .. ...... ........ .. also with ....
> 
> There are (are) several similarities .. (and) also with german.

ligheder is maybe like "Gleichheiten"? But "tysk" you just have to know.
I think Germany/German has the largest number of word roots for it in
foreign languages of any country, language, or people -- there's
"deutsch/duits", "German/Germaniya", "tysk", "Saksa" (in Finnish),
"allemand/alem�o", "nemets" (in Russian), .... And Italian "tedesco",
though that might fit in with Scandinavian "tysk".

> My knowledge of french , italian and spanish however seems of no use here as
> it seems that dutch dont lend up to theese languages.

Correct. Dutch is a Germanic language, like German, English, and Danish;
French, Italian, and Spanish are Romance languages, and are descended
from Latin. Different branches of the Indo-European language tree.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <nospam.newton@gmx.li>
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