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From: Eric.Vandermeer@net.HCC.nl (Eric v/d Meer)
Subject: Re: Can anone identify this language?
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:04:32 GMT
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In article <32ee7d9a.697602@news.iol.ie>, deskenny@iol.ie (Des Kenny) wrote:

> dcouturier@a2i-micro.fr wrote:
> 
> >In article <5camut$t53@svgotcha.ubs.net>,
> >  Patrick Meyer <crunchy.frog@swix.ch> wrote:
> >> 
> >> sounds like a dialect from the French dpartement 'Alcace'. Their dialect 
> >> is a mixture between Swissgerman and French.
> >
> >
> >Pleeeaaase:   "Alsace"!
> >
> >Thank you
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> As the original poster of this question, may I say that I detect a
> certain drift away from the topic? -- in which language does
> "Goetemre" mean "Good morning"?
> 
> I am grateful to those respondents who suggested Afrikaans, which does
> indeed seem to be the correct answer.  Resource to "Teach yourself
> Afrikaans" in my friendly local bookshop :) gives the correct spelling
> as "Goeiemre" (the original source of my query also misspells "Buon
> giorno", so I'm not too surprised at the minor discrepancy).
> 
> Thanks to all for your help!
> 
> Des Kenny <deskenny@iol.ie> <http://www.iol.ie/%7Edeskenny/>
> - "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
> -  Homer Simpson.

Goeiemre is not necessarily a misspelling. The Dutch adjective "goede" is
commonly pronounced "goeie", although it is almost never written that way.
BTW The Dutch form would be "goedemorgen".

Hope this helps.

Eric
