On 1-11-2015 23:00, clipka wrote:
> Am 01.11.2015 um 14:39 schrieb Stephen:
>
>> I could read or at least get the meaning of Modern Dutch on posters and
>> adverts. Quite hand when travelling by train, I might add.
>
> Musing about Dutch and English and German, I'm somehow reminded of a
> memorial plate on a Dutch church, which reported that the building had
> suffered heavy damage in the 1940s from "beschieting dor de engelsen".
>
> As tragic as the event surely was, for a German with some rudimentary
> Westphalian language background it can invoke quite humorous
> associations, as in the Westphalian dialect "Schiet" (spoken "sheet")
> translates to "shit", and the German "Engel" is "angel"...
> ... so come again - _what_ happened to the church?! :P
>

LOL

[musing] Wish things had been that way indeed.

Shows interesting things about language evolution.

-- 
Thomas

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