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From: Leslie Decker <leslie at volny.cz>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.06.29 (06) [E]

What about in the Elsschot poem "Het huwelijk?"  There are two lines that I
remember studying in class in Leiden:  "Maar doodslaan deed hij niet" and
"Maar sterven deed zij niet."  The prof pointed out what a strange
construction that was.  Of course, for the English speakers, it didn't even
faze us!  I wouldn't have noticed if it hadn't been pointed out to me.  How
common would something like this be where he was from, or was it all just
poetic license?

A link to the poem is here for all who are interested.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4675/elsschot/huwelijk.html

Leslie Decker

> From: Þjóðríkr Þjóðreksson <didimasure at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Grammar
>
> About the "do" as auxiliary...
>
> We here don't know it, but my father's girlfriend is born in the
> Netherlandic part of Brabant and she uses it quite often: "Doe nou je
> tanden poetsen" = "Go brush your teeth now!" or "Doe nou effe eten" = "eat
> now". She speaks no dialect at all but apparently this is a very
> long-living feature ;)
> I know more of her friends/family who use it. She comes from the region
> Bergen-op-Zoom.
>
> Diederik Masure

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From: Cullin Feddema <cufeddema at yahoo.de>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.06.29 (06) [E]


  Quote: "Yn 't wolnimmen. Wolkom, en Hummel-Hummel!"

  Moors-Moors!

  Quote: "We here don't know it, but my father's girlfriend is born in the
  Netherlandic part of Brabant and she uses it quite often: "Doe nou je 
tanden
  poetsen" = "Go brush your teeth now!" or "Doe nou effe eten" = "eat now".
  She speaks no dialect at all but apparently this is a very long-living
  feature ;)
  I know more of her friends/family who use it. She comes from the region
  Bergen-op-Zoom."

  O yes, the southern part of the Netherlands and Flanders are renowned for 
their 'doen'. I have friends in Eindhoven, who 'doen' everything. 'Doede de 
hond even buitenlaten?' At first it sounded really funny to me. I hear it a 
lot here in Hamburg as well.

  Cullin


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