LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.05.08 (07) [E]

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From: Elsie Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.05.08 (02) [D/E]

Hi all,
Steve, a few comments on your posting:
I understand Standaard speaking Nederlanders quite well, and vice versa,
when
I speak a slower Afrikaans. Of course it sometimes requires that I have to
ask a
speaker to repeat what was said a bit more 'langzaam' and then understanding
flows quite well, despite the sometime puzzled look about the tongue that
I'm speaking.
The reason for me perhaps understanding 'better' could relate to having had
some
Dutch training in grammer, diachronical studies and literature. Our high
schools and
universities used to (and might still) include Nederlands in Afrikaans
studies.
When writing, Nederlanders have no problem understanding my Afrikaans or I
their
Dutch.

Groete,
Elsie Zinsser

[The article explained that the South Africans and the Dutch swimming team
against which they were competing ended up using English as their lingua
franca due to the difficulty in understanding each other's spoken language.
I find the whole thing quite interesting! Any comments would be much
appreciated.]

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