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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2009.06.09 (02) [EN]<br><br></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi Heather: you remarked that the English “wrapping someone up
in cotton wool” conveys the exact same thing as the Dutch “een kind in de
watten leggen” There are hundreds of expressions that Dutch and English have in
common. I have been told that the transfer took place in the harbors along the River
Thames in the 16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup> century. It is the ones we
did not exchange that make translating idiomatic Dutch into idiomatic English
and vice versa so devilishly difficult. Enjoy your summer. Jacqueline </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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