This professor was a "Fries", so he did also the "Fries" part in the
research...

But I thought that you thougth that you had connections with the pelgrim
fathers: that is a complete other part from The Netherlands (Leiden?) with
another language: normal Dutch.


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Kay [mailto:Alan.Kay at squeakland.org]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:50 PM
To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: RE: Toch weer antwoord: RE: Antwoord: Squeak
Internationalization (vo orheen: Re: AW: AW: -- Whats this 'AW:' mean?)


Good point Bob --

English itself is a Creole (from various invasions, especially the 
Norman Conquest), and I'm told by linguists that if not for this that 
our language would be very much like Frieslandisch (a regional 
dialect of Dutch).

So absorbing words from elsewhere is one of the reasons that English 
thrives (including its very forgiving grammar (or almost lack of one 
altogether)).

Cheers,

Alan

----At 11:30 AM -0500 2/4/02, Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) wrote:
>  > From: G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl
>>  I think that I even can remember one Dutch word that could
>>  not be translated
>>
>>  in American English: gezellig.
>
>The obvious thing would be for English speakers to adopt "gezellig" into
the
>language.  In that vein, can you give us some idea of what "gezellig"
means?
>Does it have a counterpart in German or French?  (I'm not trying to be a
>smart-ass here, just trying to understand).
>
>Bob Jarvis
>Compuware @ Timken
>
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