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Martin T. wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>> Frank van Bortel wrote:
>>>>> Et en quoi est "homeland security" melangé avec quelqu'un qui >>>>> habite au Canada? >>>>>
>> >> From what I hear the French don't think the Canadians speak their >> language any more than the English think I speak theirs.
The point was: not all of Canada speaks french (Just as Belgians do not all speak the Dutch dialect flamish)
>> >> Is it a truck or a lorry? Do I rent it or let it? Is it an elevator >> or a lift? And then there's nasty issue about wearing your pants in >> pubic.
Autch!
Tomato's <> tomatoes? (Both valid, according to the spell checker)
> Pubic pants? :-)
> Generally I think if a language is spoken by more than two people there
> will be some amount of disagreement. (Swiss <-> French/German/Italian |
> Austrian <-> German <-> Swiss | probably Norwegian <-> Danish | oh, yes,
> Spanish <-> Spanish )
Now you offended the Swiss - the Swiss Navy will come over and bombard
your cities. :D
Swiss is not a language (worked in the German speaking as
well as the French speaking parts), it's a dialect at most.
And there are four official languages defined in Switzerland;
you forgot Roman.
You have also offended the Norwegian people - they speak Bokmal (the o should have a slash, iirc), certainly not Danish. Danish and Swedish might have similarities, as these countries have a common background. About the similarities between French and English (which seems quite substantial).
Spanish is not a language, either; you speak either Catalan or
Castillian. Or Bask, of course :)
I always forget which, but one is spoken in Spain, the other in
South America (Brazil excluded - they speak Portuguese in a similar
way South Africans spoke Dutch)
Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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Received on Thu Aug 23 2007 - 13:10:00 CDT
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