Would a Dutch speaker please check this wiki page please?

Roel Schroeven rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm
Thu Jan 18 12:07:19 EST 2007


Paul Rubin schreef:
> "Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig at xs4all.nl> writes:
>> Indeed it's not Afrikaans but just incorrect use of Dutch and not
>> related to python.
> 
> It was apparently posted by someone with a .be address, so I'll guess
> it was written a Belgian French speaker who knows some Dutch.  The
> "me" vs "mijn" error sounds like something a French speaker might have
> done.

To me (as a Belgian Dutch speaker) it sounds more like someone writing 
phonetically (probably because of a low education or low interest in 
writing correctly) and being from the Netherlands (since the 
pronunciation of 'mijn' sounds more like 'me' there then in Flanders).

It's not unlike the use of "I should of" instead of "I should've" or "I 
should have" in English, though much less common. At least I think and 
hope it's much less common, but actually I don't read all that much 
forums, newsgroups etc. in Dutch.

-- 
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven



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