On Monday 13 December 2004 11:32, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:24:37 +0100 > > "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <cobaco@linux.be> wrote: > > On Monday 13 December 2004 07:56, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Quoting Wouter Verhelst (wouter@debian.org): > > > > > Vlaams is a variant of Dutch, mostly spoken in Belgium. > > > > > > > > s/mostly // > > > > > > I just thought so but indeed wanted to be very sure I do not forgot > > > some possible very small bits of Netherlands which could have, for > > > obscure historical reasons, be speaking Flemish and not Dutch...:-) > > > > > > Such things are sometimes highly sensitive, so I'm usually very > > > careful about such issues...:-) > > > > > > Dutch speaks Flemish...:-) > > > > Actually the people in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen do speak Flemish eventhough > > they're in the Netherlands :-P, not that it really matters IMO (it > > _is_ the same language) > > Is there even a proper definition of Flemish other than 'Dutch as spoken > in Flanders'? see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_dialects which explains that the 'Dutch as spoken in Flanders' is actually not a good definition at all wrong. Basically it is often used as an umbrella-term for 'Dutch dialects spoken in the Dutch-speaking reagion of Belgium' (but that's a rather meaningless classification from a linguistic viewpoint). -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam)
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