ELL: Re: Re: Flemish

[Lucas Husgen]

Hello Niels,


> I am from Belgian Limburg. And like the most Limburgers: I'm very proud on that!

Me too, and of course we are! ;-)

> I call standard Dutch the Dutch spoken in the Netherlands, because that's the
> Dutch everything is based on. But indeed, I have to say that the standard Dutch
> language is evaluated by both Flemish and Dutchmen. It is indeed not true that
> the Dutchmen 'rule' the Dutch grammar and vocabularity. And yes, the Dutch
> spoken in the Netherlands (wich formed the base of standard Dutch) got
> influenced by several languages, including the Flemish dialects. But at that
> time there was no Flemish language, only some dialects (and one of them was
> also called Flemish).

Well, that's right.


Halt dich (for the uninitiated: take care),

Lucas


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