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Re: New Train Sets #10013 and #10014
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Sun, 24 Jun 2001 05:29:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> LFB (because at least *one* American has to try Dutch...) ;)
Well, I've tried "going dutch", anyway. Typically it would be the last date
I went on with that particular girl. :-)
So here's a question for the language geeks. Whyfore that phrase? The
Hollanders I've met (that actually were from the Netherlands, not to be
confused with all the Hollanders that live around here in Grand Rapids)
were, to a person, kind and generous. Not the sort that worry about
splitting the check exactly in half.
So why the bum rap?
My suspicion is that it actually was meant to apply to the Pennsylvania
Dutch who were actually German. (all the non fun loving germans moved to
Pennslyvania and all the non fun loving hollanders moved to west michigan,
that's my theory)...
++Lar
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| (...) Where it not the English who came up with that phrase ? If I'm not mistaking, the've linked some very nasty habits to our nationality during the time we fought out a fierce naval war with them. There was an incident where the Dutch destoid and (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Your suspicion might be well true, because your phrase "going dutch" is equal to Turkish phrase "alman usülü" which translates as "german way" and exactly means "to pay one's own expenses on a date or outing." Selçuk (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) In Nederlands wordt [?] deze woord "filosofie" gespeld. Klopt dat? Ack, my awful understanding of Dutch tenses rears its ugly head. I'm just a buitenlander, what do I know? ;) (...) "NOBODY expects the Spanish Encephalitis!" Or is that (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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