LL-L "Help needed" 2004.05.12 (06) [E]

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From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth at gnu.org>
Subject: LL-L "Help needed" 2004.05.12 (02) [E/LS]

Thanks a lot everybody, also to those who have mailed me personally!

>     What have you been reading, an old Cape Fistermansroman?

No I am just writing about the adjectives in Afrikaans. Or at least
trying to write about them ;-)

> Moin Kenneth,
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> 'probaat' seggt wi ok in Neddersassen. Dat heet in Engelsch sowat as
> approved, well proven, suitable, fit, useful.

Yes, one of my friends also told me that it is also used in Dutch,
though I have never heard it used.

Kenneth

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