Re: what is it?

>>ik sprek geen nederlands :) sprek duits ast uw blief!
>
>Wonderful! You were very close! Here is the corrected sentence:
>
>Ik spreek geen nederlands, spreek duits alstublieft.

ah ok.. i'll try to avoid them next time :)

>(to everyone who hasn't got the foggiest as what this sentence just said but
>don't want to feel left out, the translation is: "I don't speak Dutch, please
>speak German.")
>
>But considering the way German is written and pronounced, it is even closer!
>Very well done.
>
>Mein Deutsch aber ist so slecht, es is zum schreien :-))

Ich denke es ist nicht schlecht :)

>Here's my attempt at writing the Dutch sentence in phonetic German:
>
>Ik zpraek gen nederlanz, zprek Doez alstuebift.

actually spreek would be more like "sprek" ..wich would also explain
one of the mistakes in my sentence ;)

>(How's that for avoiding non-ASCII chars?)

nice :) actually all non-ascii characters can be replaced by 2
character ascii equivalents: ae oe ue ss :)

>LOL!
>
>>was that mostly correct? have to learn more of my sister, she lives in
>>amsterdam
>
>As i said, it's very good, even though the spelling could use a bit of work, the
>sentence in itself was correct. I find it rather impressive really.

heh thanks...

>>obascii german flag:
>> _______________________________
>>|###############################|
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>>black, red, gold.. wich brings us back to the topic ;)
>>by the way it's "der goldene schnitt" in german

ah that gave me an idea for a multilingual web interface


kiez uw eigen taal
waehlen sie ihre sprache
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|#########| |:::::::::|
|:::::::::| |         |
|_________| |#########|

 duits       nederlands
 deutsch     holl�ndisch

:)

>And here is my attempt at a wooden shoe:
>
>   ______,----,  .
>  |            " '
>  ".__,________.'
>
>You only know it is one because i told you it is :-))

yup actually you're right... i'll try to draw a klompen from above

      .**.
      ###,\
      \""  .
       \
        '.  '
           "

maybe toghether they are more clear ;)

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