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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language programming" 2009.01.09
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Re: "Should we
drop it". Dear Heather and Marlou. Do not drop this under any circumstances. It
is way too interesting!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Let me add
another conundrum to this rich brew. When I grew up in Utrecht
in the Netherlands
our telephone number was 12529. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">(een, twee, vijf,
twee, negen) I remember the sequence vividly. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">When the telephone service was automated
it became 030-12529, pronounced nul dertig – een, twee, vijf, twee, negen. We
had acquired an area code. I now live in Seattle
in the US
and my telephone number is 206 – 365 – 1046, pronounced two, zero, six –-
three, six, five –- one zero, four six. Where 206 is the area code 365 is the
old neighborhood exchange and 1046 gives access to my telephone. That is here
the normal "rhytm" for giving one's ten-digit telephone number. My sister who lives
near Haarlem in the Netherlands also has a ten digit
telephone number 0235254187. This comes across as 0235 – 25 – 41 – 87. My
brother used to live in Haaksbergen in the Eastern part of the country and he
would give his telephone number as: 053 – 57 – 21 – 8, 3, 9. Go figure! Does
this have anything to do with whether we say "zevenenvijftig" or "fifty seven"?
How do people in other countries solve this? Is there anything known about how
we arrive at the rythm for large numbers. I am not even speaking about the 16
digit credit cards that we are schlepping around with us.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Does anybody
have an answer to that question?</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="FR">Jacqueline </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR"></span></p>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
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Subject: Language programming<br>
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Jacqueline, Heather and the rest of you Lowlands lot,<br>
<br>
I may be way off here, but when it comes to memorizing and saying (and dialing)
strings of numbers it seems to me that I use the same mechanisms I use when I memorize
and recite poems and songs. It seems to be a matter of the combination of rhythm
and sounds, probably specifically rhythm and vowels.<br>
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Am I just weird or does anyone else share this perception?<br>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>