Re: Roots of English language
From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 09/08/04
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 12:00:01 +0200
Wed, 08 Sep 2004 02:24:42 -0700: Anti-imperialist Fighter
<ai@anti-imperialist.net>: in sci.lang:
> But I do remember hearing Dutch being played on a background
>> television set in a movie I saw, and if you're not listening closely it
>> does sound quite a bit like English, at least in its rhythm.
>
>As a matter of fact, no other language sounds more like English,
>although look at a Bergman movie sometime to see how Swedish sounds = a
>lot like English too. Dutch is actually a really beautiful language -
>it sounds like German, Italian and French together. I hear it from time
>to time.
(I don't think it's beautiful, although it's my own. Well, yes, in
some varieties spoken in Belgium it's beautiful, but not in the
Netherlands).
Dutch is half-way between German and English., in some ways. Grammar,
vocabulary, sounds, all of them have traits like German and other like
English.
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