Re: Dutch-like language [OT]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:23:08 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

On 12/5/24 8:50 AM, john larkin wrote:

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.

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It can become really tough with slang. One guy was sure he had good
fluency in Dutch and Flemish. Until we listened to this guy:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D57aoWB3Rjg
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It' hard to imagine some other-language speakers who want to sound
like the Dutch.
 

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Don't want to but it happens when you live there and immerse. I lived in
the south and spent much time in Belgium. After a while (until today)
English-speakers no longer recognized where I really came from because
my accent became all messed up. It just happens.
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When you move a lot one of the not so desired consequences is that you
are fluent or somewhat fluent in several languages but you speak none of
them perfectly, including your native tongue.

I grew up in New Orleans, which has its own accent, nothing like the
South. It's sometimes called "Yat", from the Aloha-like greeting
"Where yat?" which is properly answered by "Where yat?"

And I married a Cajun girl. The Cajuns have their own language and
accent. Two islands of weirdness that just happen to be in the south.