Re: My version

> > Somewhere a long time ago I read that Afrikaans developed as a
> > nursery language used by Dutch children and their Native nannies.
> > Of course this might be a wild guess or a snobbish putdown, but
> > maybe there's something to it.
> > Can anybody find this idea in the literature?
> > Dan

The Dutch are an enterprising people (and even more so in the Golden
Century) who seem(ed) to care less about grammar than their neighbors.
The teacher in my Dutch course was upset about someone she heard on TV
using -t for 1sg (generalized from 2,3sg).


Torsten