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Subject:	Re: Flemish Text on old Belgian Lego boxes from 1950's.
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Date:	Sun, 19 Jun 2005 06:12:31 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: > > I have a 1955-58 (box style) Belgian spare parts pack that says: > "Systeem bij het Spel". > But I also have a 1958 Belgian spare parts pack that says: > "Systeem in het Spel". > What is the difference in what this means? Or do they both mean the same thing? > It is interesting to note that the Dutch parts packs of the same era used only > "Systeem in het Spel". > Also, these Belgian sets also say: "Du System dans le jeu". > Gary Istok Hi, Systeem in het spel = System in the play (as in playing with toys) Systeem bij het spel = System with the play Du system dans le jeu = System in the play In this case, the two Dutch (and the French) frases actually mean the same thing, "System of play". Why the difference between Flemish and Dutch? I hope I don't offend anyone, Flemish people speak better the Dutch than the Dutch themselves most of the time, but sometimes the Flemish say thing a little bit different than the Dutch. I think it's because of the fact that the box is from the 50's. Nowadays there really wouldn't be a difference because it would be way to expensive to make two boxes ;-) The French frase is on the box because they speak two (actually three, Dutch, French, German) languages in Belgium, so everything is bilangual. Hope this helps, Saskia

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		Re: Flemish Text on old Belgian Lego boxes from 1950's.
(...) Thank you Saskia, Here are the languages (by country) written on each country's Lego boxes from 1955-58: Denmark: "System i leg" Norway: "System i lek" Sweden: "System i lek" Germany: "System im Spiel" Austria: "System im Spiel" Switzerland: (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)

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		Flemish Text on old Belgian Lego boxes from 1950's.
I also posted this in the local Belgian newsgroup... From 1955-58 Lego boxes had the text on the outside in the local language. Of course there were only 8 Lego countries by 1958. And each country had "Lego System of Play" in the local languages. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.be)

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