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Cherufe
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 Message 353 of 509
27 March 2011 at 8:00pm | IP Logged 
Here I go again:
het gebied and de wijk?
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 Message 354 of 509
27 March 2011 at 8:09pm | IP Logged 
Gebied : area, generally fairly big and somehow 'delineated', I think
Wijk: neighourhood simply (buurt)
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 Message 355 of 509
27 March 2011 at 8:11pm | IP Logged 
Could you explain that a little? I think I understand, but what is the link with 'holy' (sacred, you mean, I guess, not 'holly' with double l)?
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 Message 356 of 509
27 March 2011 at 8:22pm | IP Logged 
tommus wrote:
Looks like I just learned a bit about the use of the word 'register'. (...) I think register is the proper word. Thanks for the education.


I just checked on the word at an English-language website and did not find that meaning there. It does resemble 'style level', but style level steems to be broader, because you could consider a register mainly a stock of words (just like an organ register: consists of certain pipes), i.e., a lexical issue, whereas style level in my view is usein a broader sense (pertains [?] to syntax as well for example).
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 Message 357 of 509
27 March 2011 at 8:33pm | IP Logged 
yeah, I meant holy...

I don't how this came to be, but in general, at least in Bulgarian, a lot of words that have something to do with holy people or objects have close if not the same rood as world and light.
But there is a clear link between light and enlightened, and this can easily be the reason for the holy/light paradigm.
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 Message 358 of 509
27 March 2011 at 9:00pm | IP Logged 
Let met also ask a question about Dutch:

FAQ-NL: What's the difference between "hard" en "luid"?

Example: "Zet maar de muziek niet te hard!"

or: "Zet maar de muziek niet te luid!"

What do the native speakers say?

Fasulye

Edited by Fasulye on 27 March 2011 at 9:01pm

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 Message 360 of 509
27 March 2011 at 9:22pm | IP Logged 
'Luid' is simply Belgian Dutch, our 'Northern' neighbours prefer 'hard'. it is not an anglicism, oh no ! ;-)

Just like 'hardlopen' and 'lopen' in the Netherlands: we'd say 'lopen' en 'wandelen' respectively in Flanders. That's all. You see ?


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