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Recht
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 Message 25 of 64
10 May 2009 at 3:05pm | IP Logged 
Jar-ptitsa wrote:

This thread had not discussed American English and britsh English only but Flemish and
Duhtc.


There are several posts which discuss AE and BE, so you are wrong. Those're a
abbreviations, btw. It stands for American English, and not American Eagle and the
periodic element Beryllium.

Quote:
I've read it. I dont; like abbreviations and for me if it's not clearly written
maybe it seems many of possibilities.I
hadn't trouble realizing that in this thread but it can be very quick that a perosn
doesn't realizing it.


You made a big fuss about something that didn't make sense to you, but are pretty
self-explanatory explanations. People make abbreviations often, and maybe you should
work on logically understanding them instead of making posts with 20 exclamation
points. This is my last post in this thread gone horribly awry. I apologize to the
thread starter.
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Jar-ptitsa
Triglot
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Belgium
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 Message 26 of 64
10 May 2009 at 3:12pm | IP Logged 
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:

This thread had not discussed American English and britsh English only but Flemish and
Duhtc.


There are several posts which discuss AE and BE, so you are wrong. Those're a
abbreviations, btw. It stands for American English, and not American Eagle and the
periodic element Beryllium.


Yes, you can know those abbreviations when they're in one context. I'm not wrong, because BE = british English
, therfore not "British" which would be "B". You wrote only "American - british" but those abbreviations are
correct because they precise English

Quote:
Quote:
I've read it. I dont; like abbreviations and for me if it's not clearly written
maybe it seems many of possibilities.I
hadn't trouble realizing that in this thread but it can be very quick that a perosn
doesn't realizing it.


You made a big fuss about something that didn't make sense to you, but are pretty
self-explanatory explanations. People make abbreviations often, and maybe you should
work on logically understanding them instead of making posts with 20 exclamation
points. This is my last post in this thread gone horribly awry. I apologize to the
thread starter.


I didn't made a big fuss, you made it. I can understand abbreviations, of course, I'm not stupid. But I don't like
them when they're not in the context therfore it's not possible to know what's the meaning.
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Recht
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 Message 27 of 64
10 May 2009 at 3:17pm | IP Logged 
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:

This thread had not discussed American English and britsh English only but Flemish and
Duhtc.


There are several posts which discuss AE and BE, so you are wrong. Those're a
abbreviations, btw. It stands for American English, and not American Eagle and the
periodic element Beryllium.


Yes, you can know those abbreviations when they're in one context. I'm not wrong,
because BE = british English
, therfore not "British" which would be "B". You wrote only "American - british" but
those abbreviations are
correct because they precise English

Quote:
Quote:
I've read it. I dont; like abbreviations and for me if it's not clearly
written
maybe it seems many of possibilities.I
hadn't trouble realizing that in this thread but it can be very quick that a perosn
doesn't realizing it.


You made a big fuss about something that didn't make sense to you, but are pretty
self-explanatory explanations. People make abbreviations often, and maybe you should
work on logically understanding them instead of making posts with 20 exclamation
points. This is my last post in this thread gone horribly awry. I apologize to the
thread starter.


I didn't made a big fuss, you made it. I can understand abbreviations, of course, I'm
not stupid. But I don't like
them when they're not in the context therfore it's not possible to know what's the
meaning.


omg...ahahahahaha.

Please read the thread again. I wasn't even the person who called referred to British
and American in the first place. If you don't understand the context, then that's your
problem.
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cordelia0507
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 Message 28 of 64
10 May 2009 at 3:19pm | IP Logged 
Yeah, the Belgian Dutch speakers have made this clear.

I found out about it when I asked a Belgian colleague what he thought of the "Flemish" localisation of some software that my team had developed. I had thought I was up-to-date knowing that it was called Flemish! :-) But he explained the situation.

One really funny thing is that before I took over the project we had paid twice for translations of the material into Dutch. This was because my boss had been convinced that it was two different languages or at least significant differences. The translation agency was certainly not going to enlighten him.

So I was reviewing some invoices and found "BE Dutch" and "NL Dutch" which seemed wasteful. After some random checks and consultation with a Dutch colleague I came to the conclusion that we had paid double for a cut-and-paste job at the translation agency. I decided to use one translation for both the BE and NL version.

Perhaps there are some minor differences, but so far there has been no complaints. And to my great irritation most of the Dutch software users prefer the English version, so the Belgians are the main Dutch-speaking users!
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staf250
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Belgium
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 Message 29 of 64
10 May 2009 at 3:34pm | IP Logged 
This is nice!
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Jar-ptitsa
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 Message 30 of 64
10 May 2009 at 3:43pm | IP Logged 
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:

This thread had not discussed American English and britsh English only but Flemish and
Duhtc.


There are several posts which discuss AE and BE, so you are wrong. Those're a
abbreviations, btw. It stands for American English, and not American Eagle and the
periodic element Beryllium.


Yes, you can know those abbreviations when they're in one context. I'm not wrong,
because BE = british English
, therfore not "British" which would be "B". You wrote only "American - british" but
those abbreviations are
correct because they precise English

Quote:
Quote:
I've read it. I dont; like abbreviations and for me if it's not clearly
written
maybe it seems many of possibilities.I
hadn't trouble realizing that in this thread but it can be very quick that a perosn
doesn't realizing it.


You made a big fuss about something that didn't make sense to you, but are pretty
self-explanatory explanations. People make abbreviations often, and maybe you should
work on logically understanding them instead of making posts with 20 exclamation
points. This is my last post in this thread gone horribly awry. I apologize to the
thread starter.


I didn't made a big fuss, you made it. I can understand abbreviations, of course, I'm
not stupid. But I don't like
them when they're not in the context therfore it's not possible to know what's the
meaning.


omg...ahahahahaha.

Please read the thread again. I wasn't even the person who called referred to British
and American in the first place. If you don't understand the context, then that's your
problem.


please don't laugh at me. I'm upset when a perosn laugh at me.

Yes, I did undertsna dthe context of this thread but I refer other ones, it's not always clear. Now I'm go out to a
market where 2 people who we know have somethings. bye.
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Vinbelgium
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Groupie
Belgium
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Speaks: Dutch*, Flemish*, English, French
Studies: Spanish, Russian

 
 Message 31 of 64
10 May 2009 at 3:48pm | IP Logged 
The written language is completely the same, but the spoken isn't. There are the
significant differences, and I do not believe that the Flemish people understand the
spoken Dutch from The Netherlands perfectly.
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ennime
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South Africa
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Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans
Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu

 
 Message 32 of 64
10 May 2009 at 4:29pm | IP Logged 
Vinbelgium wrote:
The written language is completely the same, but the spoken isn't.
There are the
significant differences, and I do not believe that the Flemish people understand the
spoken Dutch from The Netherlands perfectly.


As a native dutch speaker from Flanders, yes we can! we spend hours in front of the TV
watching Dutch channels (from NL) making fun of their accent, but we understand all of
it... every word, even the colloquialisms (which we find very funny often)


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