jour last sentence with the additions is the problem: you need more words to
cover the complete content of one Dutch word. (Will also be the case for
missing English concepts in Dutch culture. 

...But it brings us far away from the start of the discussion(to be honoust
it is one of the things I sometimes like on this list): setting a set of
symbols as shorthands for replays [re] off topic discussions like this one
[ot] etc... I think that the intersting part of such a list is that it makes
harvesting in threads easier..

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) [mailto:Jarvisb at timken.com]
> Sent: maandag 4 februari 2002 18:25
> 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?)
> 
> 
> I liked the web site mentioned earlier about the Latin 
> grammar for Perl.
> The description of word use in Latin was very interesting to me, as it
> showed that a simple sentence could be correctly 
> written/spoken several
> different ways, and that word order was not as important as it is in
> English.  It sounds a lot like description of Slovak I've 
> gotten from some
> relatives.
> 
> On the subject of "gezellig" - sounds a bit like "familiar", 
> with elements
> of "comfortable" and "nostalgic" thrown in.
> 
> Bob Jarvis
> Compuware @ Timken
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Kay [mailto:Alan.Kay at squeakland.org]
> > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 11:50 AM
> > 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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