Would a Dutch speaker please check this wiki page please?
Roel Schroeven
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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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