From: tgpedersen
Message: 63037
Date: 2009-02-15
>I can do better than that:
> OK Torsten et al.
>
> I submitted the Youtube clips of the supposedly Scottish sisters to
> a native Dutch speaker, Ingmar Roerdinkholder with whom I correspond
> about Germanic-based constructed languages
> ("chamavian" <roerd096@...>), and he had this to say:
>
> I'd say they're sisters, too, and they're definitely Dutch.
> At least, they have no foreign accent, Scottish nor whatever,
> and they look Dutch enough to me.
>
> Lesson III "Street Language" = Slang, is particularly funny.
> Almost all the words are from Sranan Tongo = Surinamese creole.
> Since that is an English based creole originally, you might some of
> the examples the girls use, e.g. feti ("fittie") = fight; fatu
> ("fatoe") = cool (compare Dutch "vet" = lit. "fat" = cool) etc.; and
> also from American slang, "chille", "chickies" etc. or from Dutch
> such as mati ("mattie") = pal from NL maat = mate, duku ("doekoe") =
> money, from NL doek = cloth. Dushi = babe, honey is from Papiamento,
> the Portuguese-Spanish based creole spoken at the Dutch Antilles
> (Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire).
>
> Why did your Danish colleague think they'd be Scottish? Maybe
> because one of them coloured her hair red?
>