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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: German and Germanic (was: Re: Development of Slavic Languages?
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In article <3rm7b9$mgj@ilex.fernuni-hagen.de> Christian.Bruecker@FernUni-Hagen.de (Christian Bruecker) writes:
>No, these things are _not_ called "German", but "germanic".
>As you might have seen, the German word for "German" is "deutsch",
>and _not_ "german".
And the Dutch word for Dutch is _not_ Duits, but Nederlands. 
Dutch "Duits" means German, which makes the circle round.
