I should find these articles again to do the details right.

But gezellig means something like: "on a cold winternight, sitting together
around the fire, sipping from your cup with hot choclat, telling nice
stories about the old days." 
(I have my little doubts about this example, because you have evergreens
like: "Home on the ranch"

But to make it more concrete:
I was 2 years ago in SEATTLE, having a meal with the Dutch community
overthere.
Then at the end of the meal I was expecting that the gezellig part of the
evening would start,
but everyone went home, putting the last eatable parts in their doggy bags. 
We do not have doggybags in our Restaurants in the Netherlands,
because the "nazit" starts after the dessert, so I do not have a Dutch
translation for Doggybags... )


-----Original Message-----
From: Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) [mailto:Jarvisb at timken.com]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:31 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?)


> 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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