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Message no. 1
From: Dvixen <Dvixen@********.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] SR swear words (was Re: Thanks for "REFLEX")
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:33:36 -0800
Spike wrote:

> |With all the American TV shows, movies, and music we get, he thinks we
> |learn British English... <rant> The majority here speaks English with an
> |exaggerated American accent,

ACK! Heathens, all of them.

> I was really surprised by that.
> All the other european countries (Like france and germany) have distinct
> accents, but when I spoke to people in Holland <duck> last fortnight....

Man, you really like stepping there.

> What DOES a Dutch accent sound like???
> I've forgotten....

I always figured it sounded like French meets German. My Dutch friend
always is asked if he is French. (He hates that...)

*shrug* All I know is that it's got sounds found in both.

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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: [OT] SR swear words (was Re: Thanks for "REFLEX")
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 11:56:40 +0100
Dvixen said on 13:33/14 Mar 97...

[Spike in Amsterdam]
> Man, you really like stepping there.

I bet I know where he went :)

> > What DOES a Dutch accent sound like???
> > I've forgotten....
>
> I always figured it sounded like French meets German. My Dutch friend
> always is asked if he is French. (He hates that...)

He must have a weird accent... I don't think it sounds like French at all,
closer to German but not quite, I'd say (as if that will help you :)

> *shrug* All I know is that it's got sounds found in both.

A good number of French words, yeah. But it's much closer related to
German than to French.

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Message no. 3
From: GRANITE <granite@**.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] SR swear words (was Re: Thanks for "REFLEX")
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 08:45:16 -0700
> From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
> A good number of French words, yeah. But it's much closer related to
> German than to French.

Nobody wants to be associated with the French...[G]
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Message no. 4
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: [OT] SR swear words (was Re: Thanks for "REFLEX")
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 23:39:25 +0000
|> I was really surprised by that.
|> All the other european countries (Like france and germany) have distinct
|> accents, but when I spoke to people in Holland <duck> last fortnight....
|
|Man, you really like stepping there.

Where? Holland?
I've only been there once y'know.....
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