Re: Dutch/Japanese bilinguals?
Apud Aki Moilanen <akmoilan@paju.oulu.fi> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:48:37 +0200, Aki Moilanen
>> <akmoilan@paju.oulu.fi> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>>Ha! Only one of the nations starts with "D".
>> Daneland and Der Nederlands
>Hmm. What language is that? (Dutch is <Nederland>.)
>Ok, in German it's "Die Niederlande".
>On the other hand, I call the country "Alankomaat", so there.
I think of it as "The Low Countries".
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