ELL: Re: Re: Flemish vs. French in Brussels

Lucas Husgen lhusgen at KIROGI.DEMON.NL
Tue Apr 2 22:49:28 UTC 2002


Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:

> With about the same frequency that Democrats and Republicans in the US
> resort to Political-Canadian-English in speaking with one another. Never.

In point of fact, as far as my knowledge goes, all Flemish speak French. By the way, it's quite incongruent to speak of Flemish on the one hand and French spoken Belgians on the other. It's either Dutch and French spoken Belgians, or Flemish and Walloons.


Lucas

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