Re: Kim wins slam, coach quits

Somebody claiming to be "gp calliauw" <geert.calliauw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:kB%We.196695$8C.10729598@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Yeah, Dutch is so easy. Even little children can speak it here...

Dutch is just German with a really bad accent. :-p

(Seriously, I'm always amazed at how many Dutch words I can recognize in
an article just because of the close relationship with German. It seems
much closer than Russian and any of the other Slavic languages.)

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