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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Roger Hondshoven</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com">rhondshoven@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Humour" 2009.01.17 (02) [E]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Lost in translation.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> Roger
Hondshoven <<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rhondshoven@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:LOWLANDS-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" target="_blank"><span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background-attachment: scroll;">LOWLANDS-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</span></a></span><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 8, 2009 5:08:46 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Lost in translation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi
everybody who is familiar with Dutch,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">There's a
monthly magazine that is devoted to everything that pertains to the Dutch
language, <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">Onze Taal.</span></em> The latest
number, in January, ran under the title "Engels in het
Nederlands". A few authors discussed the topic borrowings from Dutch in
English and vice versa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">There is a
very humorous article by Jan Kuitenbrouwer, which I would like to share with
you. It all has to do with <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background-attachment: scroll;">literal translation from</span> Dutch into English. It is one of the
weirdest things you can imagine. At first it might not be so self-evident what
Kuitenbrouwer actually means. It takes a bit of puzzling. To
give you an idea and put you on the right road I inserted a few examples
(between brackets in italics) of what would have been the original Dutch
text. I hope I'm not spoiling the fun..</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">'Best
people! </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">It
is me a great honor and fun to have this occasion to aim the word at you on
this memorable instant, a milepole in the history of our, eh, history. Never
shot is always missed, as the philosopher said, and better one egg in the hand
than ten birds in the sky, but with that sideways, globally speaking, I think
we can be proud, and gay, of what we have reached today. Who would have
thought that ever there would come a day for you to listen to a speech that
from start to ending was completely farlanguaged (</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">vertaald</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">)</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);"> through computer! It's
unbelievably! Ah, a simple speech, you say now perhaps, that's small beer.
Maybe, but as they say, he who doesn't honor the small, isn't worth the large.
And 1 insure you, there's still enough that stands to wait us in the future! </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.8pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">Yesterday, something shot me through the head, that set me
to thinking. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);" lang="NL">(</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" lang="NL">Gisteren schoot me
iets door het hoofd dat mij aan 't denken zette.</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);" lang="NL">)</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);" lang="NL"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">In
the run of times, different cultures and different nations have developed
different languages. Different languages, but often with very resembling terms
and understandings. I am not ovendriving when I say that a hope of sayings and
speechwords, by example, are remarkable umformulous in numbers of languages.
But everydayish words as well! Take a word like <i>Kleenex.</i> In
practically all languages in the world, this means 'paper pocket-cloth'! The
same price for (</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Hetzelfde geldt voor</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">) </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">a word as <i>ketchup,</i> that in tenfolds of
languages inside the world is used for a sour-sweet tomato sauce, although the
recepture tends to walk apart. This is no coincident! This is a sunclear demonstration
of the fundamentous universalitude of our worldly linguistical heritage, thai
successively became shredded by the walk of history and its
centre-escaping forces. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: 8.8pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">As they say: completed
affairs take no turn, but when it goes around language, the facts appear
to be lying different. Because what are we seeing? We are seeing a diametrical
movement, resulting in a counterforce towards a turnaround in the opposite
direction. Yes<i>,</i> the several character of the linguistical worldcard
makes place for a new, reunificational, togethertying movement. It lies for the
hand that we are following this trend with red ears and Argus eyes, and that we
are trampling for more understudy. So let me say: all hens on cover! Work on
the shop! Oh sure, we will come to stand before surprises, there will be vipers
below the marihuana (</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">adders onder het gras</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">)</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">, maybe the monkey won't come out of the sleeve
one-two-three, but this will not beat us out of the field, because we know; the
onkeeper wins. And as J..C. 'Our Saviour has said: the ball is round, every
advantage has its disadvantage<sup> </sup> and you can only score if you
make a goal. And only time will learn who will eventually go to iron with the
honor, and who will cry all the way to the sofa, but I give you this on a note:
the ivory Tower of Babylon
has had its longest rime! Let's bring down the walls that divorce us! One
world, one language, one intercourse! The future is laughing at us!</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 11.9pt; text-indent: 11.05pt; line-height: 150%;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">So raise we now the
glass, although I hope there is more than one in the room, haha, and have some
toast. Long live the farlanguage computer!</span></p>
<p style="margin: 15pt 0in 0.0001pt 8pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 128, 255);">Jan Kuitenbrouwer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Kind
regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Roger
Hondshoven</span></p>
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