Re: Dutch-like language [OT]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 12:59:22 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

Last night in the 80-metre band I heard two 'hams' talking.  The vowel
sounds of their voices seemed to be characteristically Dutch (an accent
like the Groningen area) but the language was completely
incomprehensible.  I listened for several minutes but didn't hear a
single word I recognised
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Do any of our Dutch contributors know of some dialect that is Dutch in
sound but does not use the standard Dutch language?
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[I tried to send this to Jan by e-mail but the address I found for him
on the Web just bounced.]

I used to be a technician in a language lab full of reel-to-reel tape
decks. I was paid 65 cents per hour.

I did a lot of tape copying and some studio recording so I heard a lot
of languages. Some of the slavic languages and Cantonese sounded awful
to me. The most beautiful was Portugese, and the speaker was beautiful
too.

It' hard to imagine some other-language speakers who want to sound
like the Dutch.