Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

> > Joan and Mirren are not Dutch names. I figured they were Scottish or
> > English in relationship with Dutch guys. I was one generation off.
> > Pretty obvious there was some kind of collision of incompatible
> > Weltanschauungen, or they wouldn't be so funny.
> >
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> Do you mean that Dutch people are not funny, at least not funny in the
> way these girls are?
>

Humor is one way of dealing with conflict (actually it's just
procrastinating from it), so culture clashes creates a lot of humor.
Think Chris Rock or Dave Chapelle.


Torsten