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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005></SPAN>P<SPAN
class=187241615-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=3>atrick,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>Concerning the many epithets in English about
the Dutch, my guess is that</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>"those who love each other tease each other"
(German saying).</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>And concerning Dutch stereotypical "politeness",
maybe the explanation comes</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>from Noah J. Jacobs'"Naming Day of Eden" (The
MacMillan Company Collier</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>MacMillan Ltd., LOndon 1958), pp.
65-66:</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>"The Dutch themselves have made no attempt to
retaliate ... </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=187241615-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3> This
enviable </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>absence of rancor is typical
</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=187241615-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>of the forbearing
spirit of the land that gave birth to </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>such champions of tolerance
</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=187241615-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>as Grotius,
Erasmus and Spinoza, every whit as </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>noble as Hesiod, Pindar and
</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=187241615-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>Plutarch, who saw
the light amid the heavy mist of Boeotia. "</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=187241615-22022005></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=187241615-22022005></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=187241615-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=3>Fritz Goerling</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><TT><BR>--- In lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Hanks"
<hanks@b...> <BR>wrote:<BR>> ... Does Dutch have derogatory
expressions involving "English"? Or <BR>is Dutch stereotypically more
polite -- or more parochial -- than <BR>English? <BR><BR>The only expression
with "English" in Dutch, apart form a few really <BR>harmless technical terms,
that comes to my mind is "Engelse ziekte" <BR>(English disease) =
"rachitis".<BR>Probably the influence of England on Holland was less than the
one <BR>vice <BR>versa; due to England's insular (insulating?) position?
England seems <BR>to have had less direct impact on us than e.g. France, and
German <BR>Bishops.<BR>At any rate I hardly recall from my History lessons in
primary school <BR>much more about England than the "English wars # 1 .. 4"
and Michiel <BR>Adriaanszn De Ruiter sailing up the Medway and breaking the
<BR>protective chain over the river. <BR><BR>hartelijke groeten, <BR><BR>Kees.
<BR><BR></TT><TT>
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