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From: aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan)
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Subject: Re: Nothing to do with Amigas
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Date: 11 Sep 90 22:43:35 GMT
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From article <1990Sep11.003400.16632@lavaca.uh.edu>, by jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend):
> In article <2138@wn1.sci.kun.nl> janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx) writes:
>>People in the Netherlands generally speak Dutch, not German. That language
>>is spoken by our eastern neighbours.
> 
> How recently did they become "neighbors"?  :-) (Referring to the U.S.
> connotations that "neighbor" is someone friendly.)

Interesting how words change meaning when they move to the US :-)
Here it means the same as the German gentleman used it - the peole next
door.
Anyway - I thought Dutch was also referred to as "Low German".
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