I've just been to Amsterdam and have always had a slightly more than passing fascination with European languages, their differences and similarities. The thing that surprised me about Dutch is how similar some sentences sound to English (or vice versa indeed) and it just reminds me that English itself is a hotch-potch of European and Scandinavian languages... But that's neither here nor there...
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> Shows just what I know about language, boing. Ye
> olde English, perhaps in some very ye olde English that I
> never heard, but none of those that English teachers tried
> to teach me. I was aware of olde English that was very
> different, but I didn't know there was a transverse
> between olde English and Dutch, even as the Dutch came to
> this country.....I suppose that is the education system
> here, always tucking away things into dark corners. It is
> so logical, especially since I grew up in New Amsterdam.
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> I made the wrong assumption about German because of the
> word "licht" but indeed, there was scant a basis for it.
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> Thanks for sharing, and also for clarifying. Most Dutch I
> hear has no recognizable English sounding parts to it, and
> this language of the song does. One of these days I will
> have to turn studies to the roots of the languages. There
> are so many of them.
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> > (the sample was Dutch, and according to
> > href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_language">Wikipedia,
> > Frisian is more similar to Ye Olde English then German.)
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> > > Well, that is definitely different. Alot more recognizable
> > > than the Dutch, because it seems like Frisian has some
> > > German influences
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