Re: My version

--- On Sun, 2/22/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: My version
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 4:00 AM
> > > 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

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