Toch weer antwoord: RE: Antwoord: Squeak Internationalization (vo orheen: Re: AW: AW: -- Whats this 'AW:' mean?)

Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) Jarvisb at timken.com
Mon Feb 4 20:01:34 UTC 2002


One of the alternatives at http://dict.leo.org/?search=gesellig is
"convivial", which sounds to me to be part of what the Dutch word "gezellig"
is trying to convey.

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Freudenberg [mailto:bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de]
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:37 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?)
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) wrote:
> 
> > On the subject of "gezellig" - sounds a bit like 
> "familiar", with elements
> > of "comfortable" and "nostalgic" thrown in.
> 
> If it is related to the German "gesellig" (which I assume), then the
> essential part is the "Gesellschaft": It's only "gesellig" if 
> there are a
> few people with you. The dictionary provides some words that 
> I've never
> heard of before, like "gregarious" 
> (http://dict.leo.org/?search=gesellig).
> 
> -- Bert
> 
> 


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