Re: My version

--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: My version
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 7:12 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco
> Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > > If a European language spreads beyond Europe, it
> is either the
> > > same language (American English) or another
> language (Afrikaans).
> > > It is never a dialect in such cases.
> >
> > Isn't Afrikaans considered a modern dialect of
> Dutch?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Francesco
> >
>
> I've only ever seen Afrikaans described as a separate
> language, though
> of course very closely related to modern Dutch, since they
> are of
> common origin from 17th-century Dutch.

Dutch and Belgians have told me it sounds like "baby talk", which is what many Spanish-speakers say about Portuguese --mainly because small kids in Latin America tend to pronounce <ie> as /e/ and final -e as /i/, and also lisp or shush their /s/

>
> Andrew