Re: Japs can't pronounce L's (the Japanese convert L's into R's)

bertietaylor <bertietaylor@novabbs.com.invalid> wrote:

[on the Dutch]

Amazing lot, going to the ends of the Earth to grab whatever they could.
Active!

As far as Nagasaki, anyway.
The Dutch didn't grab anything there, they traded.
They were succesful in that, precisely because
they did not try to grab anything.
(that's what the Spanish and the Portugese were kicked out for)

The Dutch also brought them books, [1]
which the Japanese translated as well as they could.
(with Dutch help)

In consequence many Japanese technical and scientific terms
have Dutch origins.
(or they are from other European languages, through Dutch)

Jan

[1] Foreign books were banned completely to begin with,
but they were tolerated later on,
when not containing any christianity.