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From: rob.elsas@tip.nl (Rob Elsas)
Subject: Re: easiest lang for beginner (Dutch)
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> Ralf Hartemink <ngw@teleoffice.nl> wrote:
> >aardvark in English (varken = pig, aarde = earth/ground), or some kind of 
> >wild cow : wildebeest (wild = wild, beest = beast). The latter animal is 
> >known in Dutch as gnoe.
> 
> Interesting... in English we have both words with the latter spelled 
> "gnu", but pronounced the same as "gnoe", of course, and AFAIK each is 
> used about as often as the other.  It's curious that Nederlands 
> imported the Khoisan word "nqu", while the Afrikaners created their own 
> "logical" word.
> 
Afrikaans and Dutch have grown apart centuries ago. Modern Afrikaans has 
thousands of newly coined words (often insoired by English), for which there 
already were Dutch equivalents. 

Rob Elsas

