LL-L "Lexicon" 2006.04.03 (03) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 03 April 2006 * Volume 03
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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2006.04.03 (01) [E]

Ja, but 'fascist' is a heavy-laden term, and I certainly don't want to 
accuse your colleague who I don't know at all, so I withdrew this.
You know, our fellow Dutch often think that everything that can be said, 
should be said, even if it is offensive, thinking it is 'honest', that's 
why internationally we've got the reputation of being rude (bot), well, 
I don't like that attitude at all, but obviously my Hindustatement was an 
example of it, and again I apologize. Apologizing for one's mistakes is a 
rare (in Holland) but very good habit, I believe, especially when someone 
else expressed his displeasure, as you did. 
I think our Belgian "collinguals" (I don't know if that's an existing 
word) could be an example for many Dutchmen) - being more modest, polite 
and sensitive on the average. I'm happy to be half-Flemish in that respect 
(the other half being Low Saxon).
By the way, Marcel, where are you from - do you speak any dialect?
Groeten van Ingmar 

Marcel schreef:
>Nou zeg! Well, of course, everybody is entitled to his / her opinion, and
>you surely don't need to apologise for expressing an opinion about 
something
>that you think is true! If it is the case that some opinions were 
undesired
>and therefore should not be expressed, then I might as well keep 50% of my
>ideas to myself.
>No matter how unfounded, well-founded, unreasonable, reasonable, correct,
>incorrect, nuanced or unnuanced statements may be, they are still opinions
>in their own right and one can agree with them or disagree with them -- 
and
>then try to refute them. Attempting to refute them is the nice part about
>incorrect statements, I think :)

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