LL-L "Language varieties" 2007.09.07 (08) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L  -  31 August 2007 - Volume 08
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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2007.09.07 (03) [E]

From: Luc Hellinckx < luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar"
Could you give me another reason why you think that the "makers" of
Afrikaans were no native Dutch speakers?

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

The logical simplification of the grammar for one thing - no grammatic
gender (die or 'n in all situations); one verb form whether singular or
plural, first second or third person.
Those sort of things tend to happen when foreigners can't get their heads
round the grammatical distinctions.  A lot of "proto-Afrikaners" were
clearly of Dutch origins, but when you see how many Afrikaans surnames
are of French, Portuguese, German and Swedish origin (amongst many others),
they obviously weren't all from the Netherlands.

Paul Finlow-Bates

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