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Skriven 2010-04-10 20:52:02 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
   Kommentar till text 6616 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: How interesting
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Hello Michiel.

05 Apr 10 15:14, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

 MV> Hello Ward,

 MV> On Monday April 05 2010 09:36, you wrote to Robert Bashe:

 WD>> Afrikaans and Dutch are very closely related

 MV> Yes...

 WD>> and we can speak to eachother and easily understand.

 MV> Sorry, I have to contradict that. Dutch and Afrikaans share a common
 MV> origin, but they have drifted apart so fat that we can NOT easely
 MV> understand each other. I have lived in South Africa and worked in an
 MV> Afrikaans speaking environment. When I first came to work, I didn't
 MV> understand a word they were saying when they spoke among themselves.
 MV> it did not take vey long to learn it, but it definitely is not true
 MV> that we can easely understand each other just like that.

Sorry to contradict that !!!!  I have both Dutch and Afrikaans in my workplace
and they understand each other perfectly ('specialy when reduced to words of
less than two syllables)    ... ;-) ...

Stewart

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