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Re: New Train Sets #10013 and #10014
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:16:43 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> > LFB (because at least *one* American has to try Dutch...) ;)
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> Well, I've tried "going dutch", anyway. Typically it would be the last date
> I went on with that particular girl. :-)
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> 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.
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> So why the bum rap?
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> 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)...
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> ++Lar
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
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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