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From: Fred van Brederode <f.vanbrederode at home.nl>
Subject: Culture?

Nothing linguistic, though still of cultural importance, I'd like to bring
up an observation.

In the beginning of this year I announced on our LL list the trip I was
going to make a trip to San Francisco. I have been back for ages again, but
looking at the pictures I remember a large building in the city center
flying a Dutch (Netherlands) flag: the horizontal tricolor of red, white and
blue bands. It was not the Dutch consulate or something and I remember
having seen this on the east coast (at least in New England) on a rather
large scale. Especially antique shops there fly the tricolor flag. Sometimes
they have the word "open" printed in the middle (white) band.

The legend says that Dutch was only this close to becoming the official
language of the US. We are quite convinced these days that this truly is a
legend, but the flying tricolors on the other hand are really there. Could
it be true that the independent US always regretted the British took over
and longed back for the Peter Stuijvesandt era with the good old red, white
and blue bands. Will this explain their flagging behaviour? Or would there
be some other explanation?

Groeten

Fred van Brederode
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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: History

Hi again, Fred!

Let me just remind you that our focus does include culture and history
besides language. So no apologies needed.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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