Re: Linguistic Agonies

Ruud Harmsen wrote:

Children born in Portugal, from Dutch parents, Dutch spoken at home,
went to Portuguese schools, parents also spoke good Portuguese. Result: normal sounding Dutch, but r distributed as in Portuguese (Dutch can have both too, but either of the two, after regional or personal choice, not both according to position). They used Portuguese meanings and expressions in Dutch, like 'combinar' = make an appointment (the Dutch word exist, but not in that sense), and some other examples I forgot. 

Both phenomena are interesting. I wouldn't expect the first.

My cousin lived in Elizabeth, NY, until he was about 16. When he came to
Portugal, he'd speak good portuguese, only that his verbal paradigms
were english: weird 'tenho feito', subjunctive forms just like the
indicative, etc. It took him a year or two to become unnoticed.
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