At 01:01 AM 2/16/02 +0000, you wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, William S. wrote:
>
>> Although I am in the Netherlands I am not a native
>> speaker. I will begin my Dutch language course in
>> April but doubt I will be reading Nederlands
>> very proficiently too soon. :)
>
>Where else do they speak Dutch besides some rural parts of Pennsylvania
>where they generally shun technology? :)
The "Pennsylvania dutch" are actually german, for all I know.
Seems that like a case of one person saying "deutsche" and
another hearing "dutch". At least that's the explanation
that I heard from a native. This native was born in a farm,
then went to Drexel university, and now he's a phd and a top
programmer of web applications for research purposes. So
not all "Pennsylvania dutch" are technology averse. His
dad, still a farmer, uses a Mac. So they even have taste
in technology.
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Sat Feb 16 2002 - 08:16:57 GMT
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