do twins in holland speak double dutch?
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Take your jokes to the Jokes and Puzzles section. Be funny on your own time Mr. Reporto.
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Here are three pages I found on this topic:\nhttp://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html\nhttp://www.ned.univie.ac.at/Publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/germaans.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages\n\nTo answer your question, it looks like, from these sources, Dutch and Afrikaans are most closely related to German, and then the Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish), Yiddish, and English are somewhat more distantly related, but still in the same family.
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Because they are of Germanic descent. Dutch = Deutsch. \n\nPeter Brooke, Kinmuck Scotland\nI'd always thought it was a corruption of Deutsch, similar to the phrase 'Pennsylvania Dutch', who hail from Germany rather than the Netherlands. \n\nRonald T Elsworth, Chicago USA\n"There are the Potsdam Dutch, the Rotterdam Dutch, and the goddam Dutch". I can't remember the exact origin of this quote, except that it was from an English source at the time of our rivalry in the seventeenth century. At that time, dialects of "Deutsch" were both more distinctive and more widely used than today, and Englishmen considered Holland to be one of many German countries. After centuries of separate political and cultural development, Dutchmen have told me that they find the term offensive. Sadly, it remains the only word our language has for a "Hollander". \n\nBill Irving, Clacton UK\nSpecifically, the Netherlanders were the "Low Dutch". People from German speaking countries were the "High Dutch". Nowadays Germans can speak either Hochdeutsch (official German)or Platdeutsch, but how similar the latter is to the language of Amsterdam, I don't know. \n\nChristopher Young, Sheffield England\nThe term 'Hollander' isn't even really accurate, as technically it only refers to someone from the two western provinces of North and South Holland (including Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam). People from the north, east and south of the country can get quite offended if you refer to them as 'Hollands' rather than 'Nederlands'! \n\nJames Geldart, London UK\nWhen I stayed with a Dutch family about twenty years ago, I happened to mention the word 'Dutch' in conversation, whereupon the father of the family got quite upset, thinking I was accusing him of being German. He was obviously no fan of the Germans as a result of his war experiences, and insisted that he was 'Hollands'. Incidentally, I've always been puzzled by the fact that some French people call Holland 'L'Holland', which is pronounced (more or less) 'Lowland'. Is this coincidence? \n\nChris Colley, Cambridge UK\n`Dutch 'is ultimately derived from an Indo-european root meaning 'people'. The reflex of the same root may be seen in the Welsh word 'tud' (people) which is to be found in the personal name Tudur (English Tudor )which is derived from an earlier form which meant 'king of the people'. The root is also to be found in the personal name Tudno (one familiar with / known by his people) which one can see in the seaside town of Llandudno (Dudno\nGuto Rhys, Madrid, Spain\nSeeing as the Dutch refer to themselves as "nederlanders", there's no reason why the English can't use the equivalent 'netherlanders', in the same vein as 'greenlanders' or indeed 'new zealanders', but that's a different question. \n\nAndy, den haag nederland\nDutch is derived from the earlier common language spoken in the Low Countries called "Diets". \n\nFrank Landsman, Bandung, Indonesia
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No, it makes them part Spanish.\n\n(?)
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czech reuplic //// holland
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They are spelt differently
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Yes, it's a dutch name.\nI even know a few people with the same name !\n\n"Van" means "from", It may be strange to you, but in holland a lot of last names has a word like "van" or "van den" in their last names. There's not a right translation for it, it's just a little strange.. ;)\n\nand for the word "Bokkelen" isn't a straight translation either.\nBut the word "Bok" in dutch is a how we call a little goat.\n\nLitteraly "Bokkelen" means (Baby)goating\n\nBut that makes no sence, we don't use that word in Holland.
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U mijn vrouw, bent gorgeus\nU mijn vrouw, bent mooi\nYou my wife, are gorgeous/ beautiful.  It would be nice to here in a foreign language.
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There are three choices -- Scots, Frisian and Dutch.\n\nIt just depends on how you define "different language", and if you think if matters how many speakers the language has.\n\nFirst, the "American" bit is nonsense -- American & British English are clearly dialects of one common language.\n\nLet's also discount various forms of "pidgin English" that have developed in some areas where English is not the native language.\n\nHow about GERMAN? -- No, not quite.  The language we know as German is actually "High German", so-called because it is spoken in the inland, elevated areas (originally spoken in "Prussia", the eastern part of modern Germany, this was the language of Luther), whereas English is more closely related to the "Low German" languages of the lowlands closer to the sea.\n\n1) So the first reasonable candidate is SCOTS, that is "Lowland Scots" or "Ulster Scots" (to distinguish it from the Gaelic language known as Highland Scots).   Some, however, simply treat this is a dialect of English.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language\n\n2) The next closest, and clearly a distinct language is FRISIAN, "spoken by about half a million members of an ethnic group living on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. "\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_language\n\n3) If that's not a large enough group to count, you'd have to go with DUTCH.  (Compare also Low German dialects in the Northwestern part of Germany, such as "Plattdeutsch", and Afrikaans, which was originally a Dutch dialect.)\nhttp://ucl.ac.uk/dutch/why_dutch/index.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language#Classification_and_related_languages
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The two languages are closely related, but that doesn't mean that they are very similar. I wonder if you are just looking for an easy language to learn (for whatever strange reason) you would do better to choose a Latin language like Italian and Spanish (fairly easy) or French (a bit more difficult). Or German, which is more difficult still, but related to English. the problem with Dutch, if you want to use it to speak to people in the Netherlands, is that so many people there speak fluent English that you will have to study if for an incredibly long time before you speak it better than they speak your language. Not a very rewarding situation.
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yes\nbut there aren't any laws against giving birth to identical twins, tripletts, quadruplets etc...\nwhats the difference when many times muliple births come from fertility drugs
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i also have twin sons and get asked if they are twins all the time. No idea why...Another thing that drives me nuts is when they say, "You really have your hands full, don't you..." No S**T Sherlock!
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are you referring to languages? if you are then i speak three.
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i should start learning 'Swiss' when i were you. Then you have the biggest part of Europe covered.\n\nIn Switzerland they speak Italian, German and French. There is not really a Swiss language, by the way.\n\nI'm Dutch, i won't be offended if you don't speak Dutch in my country. But i bet you'd be offended if i only spoke Dutch in your country, isn't it ?\n\n(if this question was supposed to be serious, then i'm sorry if i could only read it while laughing my brains out)
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www.rnw.nl/distrib/realaudio/html/english.html\n\nwww.multilingualbooks.com/online-radio-dutch.html\n\nwww.cs.vu.nl/~melanie/dutch.htm\n\nMay be these are helpful to you
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yes, you can spell two words simultaneously because some words are spelled the same but have completely different meanings, and sometimes they are even pronounced differently.\n\nExample: ball the round toy, and ball the dance.\n\nB-A-L-L
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I hear it spoken around Stamford Hill in London.\n\nMy dad speaks it fluently but not as a first language.