We've got the best wishes in the Netherlands
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I'm in Groningen for the celebration of the 30-year anniversary of Alfa-Informatica.
So this is appropriate:
January 26, 2017 @ 9:39 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Humor
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I'm in Groningen for the celebration of the 30-year anniversary of Alfa-Informatica.
So this is appropriate:
January 26, 2017 @ 9:39 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Humor
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We've got the best wishes in the Netherlands • Zhi Chinese said,
January 26, 2017 @ 11:11 am
[…] Source: Language We've got the best wishes in the Netherlands […]
D.O. said,
January 26, 2017 @ 4:21 pm
Mr. Trump, as he informed us, is proud of his heritage. But he forgot to mention which one. He remembered it for judge Curiel, but forgot his own. It's German. With a language that does not exist.
Guy said,
January 26, 2017 @ 5:36 pm
It's true. German isn't even a real language, just a collection of dialects.
Zeppelin said,
January 26, 2017 @ 6:26 pm
Can confirm. This so-called "German" is nothing but a Prussian imperialist ploy to subjugate the proud people of Hesse and force their voiceless palatal fricative on us.
JPL said,
January 27, 2017 @ 3:17 am
Thanks for that, Mark! I enjoyed it, really very funny. Really a good command of the Trumpese there.
Keith said,
January 27, 2017 @ 7:51 am
And the shot of the corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street… and no reference to William of Nassau?
Joke Kalisvaart said,
January 27, 2017 @ 9:24 am
@Keith:
William of Orange = William of Nassau
Jakob Boman said,
January 28, 2017 @ 1:34 pm
German, Danish, Dutch and English are all proto-germanic languages anyway. But then again, you typically fight most with family!
Another country heard from • Zhi Chinese said,
February 4, 2017 @ 3:13 pm
[…] it was "The Netherlands Second". Now it's Switzerland making a […]