LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.05.09 (06) [E]

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From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <roger.thijs at euro-support.be>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.05.09 (05) [E]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Language varieties
>
> I found that a bit surprising at first thought.  I should think that
> Afrikaners, because of their lifelong exposure to Afrikaans and English,
> would find all those "superfluous" suffixes and morphological distinctions
> in Dutch confusing, and that the "scaled-down" structure of Afrikaans
> ought
> to be easier for Netherlanders to understand.  I wonder if the reason is
> that Afrikaners are more exposed to Dutch than Netherlanders are to
> Afrikaans.

I don't know fot now, but in the past South-Afrikaners avoided to take over
English __vocabulary__ for new concepts and new techno-objects. Often the
Dutch term was lend.

When the Dutch term was "not Dutch enough" though, an ad hoc word was
created eventually: metro --> moltrein.

Regards,
Roger

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.05.09 (05) [E]


Our Mark wrote:
"There are of course linguistically agile people, like Our Ron & Criostoir
(& most Nederlanders), & others that are less so."

You flatter me! All I can do is try and shift out of the way and pass all
the praise on to Ron, who is, quite simply, a linguistic athlete the like of
which is awesome to behold. We have yet to find a language he can't chat
away in.

Go raibh maith agat,

Criostóir.

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Language varieties

Mark (above):

> here in South Africa
> that we follow Nederlanders slightly better than they follow Afrikaners.

I found that a bit surprising at first thought.  I should think that
Afrikaners, because of their lifelong exposure to Afrikaans and English,
would find all those "superfluous" suffixes and morphological distinctions
in Dutch confusing, and that the "scaled-down" structure of Afrikaans ought
to be easier for Netherlanders to understand.  I wonder if the reason is
that Afrikaners are more exposed to Dutch than Netherlanders are to
Afrikaans.

"Linguistically agile," huh?  That's a new one.  Isn't it often "linguistic
contortionist" in my case, as in "getting in twist"?

Take care, Mark!

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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