Europese gevoelens

[Peter Houtzagers]

Wayles Brown wrote:

> I would be delighted to see on SEELANGS:
> Slavic job announcements from Netherlands universities;
> discussions on ways to increase numbers of students in Belgian courses;
> announcements of Slavic meetings in Switzerland;
> calls for papers for Slavic meetings in India;
> offers of research scholarships in Japan;
> Slavic summer schools in Norway;
> successful struggles against downsizing in German universities;
> sources of Russian films in Thailand;
> etc.
> I think these would contribute greatly to the world-wide flavor.
> I'm willing to read them in Dutch, French, Norwegian, German...
> as well as Slavic languages.


Dear Wayles and others,

In other words: why don't we use Seelangs the way you do? :-) ["you"
is a gross generalization]. All right, here we go.

(1) Hadie mensen,
zeg, vrijdag 18 april moet ik naar Leiden om een gastcollege te
geven. Ik moet er zo vroeg heen dat ik mijn rail-actief kaart niet
kan gebruiken. Is er misschien iemand met wie ik mee kan rijden?
We delen natuurlijk de kosten. Doei!

(2) Beste Sielengers,
ik zit thuis en heb mijn boeken hier niet. En nou weet ik effe niet
wat "hoogachtend"in het Russisch is. Ik ga er niet voor naar het
instituut fietsen, dat begrijp je. Ik moet het wel snel weten.
De mazzel!

This is a caricature, but I'm sure there are people out there who
recognize elements of it (which is what caricatures are meant for).

Don't get me wrong. I don't deny that
1. There is occasionally something interesting to be read on Seelangs
2. Things going on in America can be interesting to others
3. Americans display very much activity on Seelangs and that is to
be appreciated.

Still yours,

Peter Houtzagers

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Dr. H. Peter Houtzagers
Slavic Dept., Groningen University, The Netherlands
h.p.houtzagers at let.rug.nl
tel. +31 50 363 6061/6067
fax +31 50 363 4900
http://www.let.rug.nl/~houtzage/
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