Dunglish (Nengels)

Ruud Harmsen

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Apr 5, 2012, 6:47:17 AM4/5/12

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"A quick guide to understand Flemish and Dutch people who English:

http://nengels.tumblr.com/

Argh grapy!
(Erg grappig = very funny)
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Harlan Messinger

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Apr 5, 2012, 7:14:20 AM4/5/12

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On 4/5/2012 6:47 AM, Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> "A quick guide to understand Flemish and Dutch people who English:
>
> http://nengels.tumblr.com/
>
> Argh grapy!
> (Erg grappig = very funny)

Bad hair day = M'n haar is in de oorlog?

Ruud Harmsen

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Apr 5, 2012, 10:25:37 AM4/5/12

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Harlan Messinger <h.re...@gavelcade.com> schreef/wrote:

No. The Dutch word 'war' has to with 'verwarring' = confusion, verward
= confused. No connection with anything like war. War is probably
related to German Wehrmacht = army, which in Dutch we see traces of in
"zich (ver)weren" = defend oneself, stand up for you rights, weerloos
= defenseless, etc.

wugi

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Apr 5, 2012, 4:33:36 PM4/5/12

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Harlan Messinger wrote:
> On 4/5/2012 6:47 AM, Ruud Harmsen wrote:
>> "A quick guide to understand Flemish and Dutch people who English:
>>
>> http://nengels.tumblr.com/

This is much older and completer:
http://www.ewetel.net/~adriaan.bladel/taalgein/ddutch.htm

I call it "Triple Dutch" (beyond Double Dutch:-) (besides Deutsj mit Haar
auf) under
http://home.scarlet.be/~pin12499/opperlan.htm

Triple Dutch translated:
I'm fed up.
(Ditto)
Very expensive.
Much better.
She wants, he can't anymore.
Suit yourself, I'm through with it.
That was sth for his skills.
It beats me.
It dawned upon him.
Waht's going on?
He couldn't answer.
I don't mind.
He would turn a blind eye.
He would look it through the fingers.
How goes it? -So and so.
Would you keep a lower profile?
He was exhausted.
I keep you informed.
A (nuclear) warhead: See below.
The goings on of this fellow.
I agree with you.

>>
>> Argh grapy!
>> (Erg grappig = very funny)
>
> Bad hair day = M'n haar is in de oorlog?

"in de war" = messed up, confused
"het warhoofd" = the absentminded or confused person, "the warhead" :-)

guido google:wugi

The General of the Faceless Anti-Franz Shadow Army

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Apr 5, 2012, 8:44:29 PM4/5/12

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On 5 Apr, 23:33, "wugi" <wugiB...@scarlet.be> wrote:
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
> > On 4/5/2012 6:47 AM, Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> >> "A quick guide to understand Flemish and Dutch people who English:
>
> >>http://nengels.tumblr.com/
>
> This is much older and completer:http://www.ewetel.net/~adriaan.bladel/taalgein/ddutch.htm
>
> I call it "Triple Dutch" (beyond Double Dutch:-) (besides Deutsj mit Haar

> auf) underhttp://home.scarlet.be/~pin12499/opperlan.htm

Obviously connected with verwirren, Wirrkopf.

Ruud Harmsen

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Apr 6, 2012, 1:38:46 PM4/6/12

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The General of the Faceless Anti-Franz Shadow Army
<craoi...@gmail.com> schreef/wrote:

>> > Bad hair day = M'n haar is in de oorlog?
>>
>> "in de war" = messed up, confused
>> "het warhoofd" = the absentminded or confused person, "the warhead" :-)
>
>Obviously connected with verwirren, Wirrkopf.

No doubt.

We also have the Dutch word wirwar:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Georges_Pompidou

Hans Aberg

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Apr 7, 2012, 2:53:51 PM4/7/12

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On 2012/04/06 19:38, Ruud Harmsen wrote:

> We also have the Dutch word wirwar:
> http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Georges_Pompidou

And Swedish 'virrvarr', from German "wirrwar(r)", Lessing 1754, at this
time considered Low German dialect, though 'wirenwar' already in 1486,
meaning ’dispute’.

Hans

http://runeberg.org/svetym/1221.html

Curlytop

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Apr 10, 2012, 4:18:24 PM4/10/12

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Harlan Messinger set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

ROFLMAO at the image of somebody's hair tangled up in the works of a clock.
(I presume that's what "oorlog" means, after the French.)

Never had that trouble myself.
--
ξ: ) Proud to be curly

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