Migration to new Message Boards - Part two
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Posted on: 2009-07-23 20:17 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Also, are we there yet?
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Nearly 
Unless Avatea comes on and says there's been a technical problem, and they'll put off the merge to next week 
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Lol, for the past hour or so there have been many irrelevant posts in lots of different threads (like a goodbye, wreck the house party), I think it's in any mod's best interest to get on with the merge as soon as possible.
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Yeah - we're being silly today becuase it's the last day - if they put it off, everything will go rather flat
@Golden Girl
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But then, I'm always fascinated to hear any english speaking person try and pronounce Scheveningen
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Oh, that one's easy.
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But that was a Dutch guy saying. Now it's your turn
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Alas, I must decline.. I had tonsillitis 2 weeks ago (followed by a week of swine flu) and haven't fully recovered.
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But then, I'm always fascinated to hear any english speaking person try and pronounce Scheveningen
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Oh, that one's easy.
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But that was a Dutch guy saying. Now it's your turn
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Alas, I must decline.. I had tonsillitis 2 weeks ago
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I think that might help with the pronounciation, actually.
@Golden Girl
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Yeah, wish I had mastered reading and writing dutch. Can speak it OK. Admitidly my vocab has slipped in the 10 years since I learnt it but my accent is still OK. Really must try and get back into it.
Oh, and I found 's-Hertogenbosch harder to get my tongue around.
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Alas, I must decline.. I had tonsillitis 2 weeks ago (followed by a week of swine flu) and haven't fully recovered.
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Swine flu cannot hold a candle to Man Flu.
What's REALLY funny, is listening to Dutch people speak English.
Or should I say... "ssshpeek Englissshh" 
@FloatingFatMan
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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But then, I'm always fascinated to hear any english speaking person try and pronounce Scheveningen
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Oh, that one's easy.
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But that was a Dutch guy saying.
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Sounded more like someone sneezing
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Actually my scottish friend once told me that closest to it comes a little sentence in english of which I'm sure the last word will get censored as it's not a friendly word towards black people. And no, I do not discriminate, it makes for a close to real version of 'Scheveningen':
Shave a <you fill it in..> and then at rather high speed.
Friend of mine actually HEARD that when someone said it to him for the first time and he just asked '[censored]? are you out of your mind?'
Seriously: I think they've already started, just not bothered to take down the old forum! 
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Alas, I must decline.. I had tonsillitis 2 weeks ago (followed by a week of swine flu) and haven't fully recovered.
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Swine flu cannot hold a candle to Man Flu.
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This is true
@Golden Girl
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Oh, and I found 's-Hertogenbosch harder to get my tongue around.
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easy: Den Bosch
Like 's-gravenhage.. its DEN HAAG. Stupid old dutch.
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Seriously: I think they've already started, just not bothered to take down the old forum!
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But they lied to us then!
@Golden Girl
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Oh, and I found 's-Hertogenbosch harder to get my tongue around.
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easy: Den Bosch
Like 's-gravenhage.. its DEN HAAG. Stupid old dutch.
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OK, yes I did know that. Loved den Bosch. But the beach at den Haag is still refered to as 's-Gravenhage isn't it?
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Yeah, wish I had mastered reading and writing dutch. Can speak it OK. Admitidly my vocab has slipped in the 10 years since I learnt it but my accent is still OK. Really must try and get back into it.
Oh, and I found 's-Hertogenbosch harder to get my tongue around.
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Another word people stare at wide-eyed:
sinaasappelsap
And it's so full of vitamins and good for you too..
edit: FFM cuold use some I think
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Alas, I must decline.. I had tonsillitis 2 weeks ago (followed by a week of swine flu) and haven't fully recovered.
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Swine flu cannot hold a candle to Man Flu.
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I'm getting that next week.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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OK, yes I did know that. Loved den Bosch. But the beach at den Haag is still refered to as 's-Gravenhage isn't it?
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No, that is scheveningen
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What's REALLY funny, is listening to Dutch people speak English.
Or should I say... "ssshpeek Englissshh"
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That are only who did not have English lessons since Middle school, like most of our government officials
I am so ashamed when I see those guys trying to speak English...
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What's REALLY funny, is listening to Dutch people speak English.
Or should I say... "ssshpeek Englissshh"
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That are only who did not have English lessons since Middle school, like most of our government officials
I am so ashamed when I see those guys trying to speak English...
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Should have a word with my buddy as well then...
Oooh, if he reads this, I'm sooooooooo dead! Though he IS Frisian... Maybe that's why?
@FloatingFatMan
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Seriously: I think they've already started, just not bothered to take down the old forum!
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But they lied to us then!
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No, they just didn't tell the thruth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth... ...and that would be quite normal really...
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Seriously: I think they've already started, just not bothered to take down the old forum!
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But they lied to us then!
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No, they just didn't tell the thruth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth... ...and that would be quite normal really...
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Not really, no
@Golden Girl
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OK, yes I did know that. Loved den Bosch. But the beach at den Haag is still refered to as 's-Gravenhage isn't it?
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No, that is scheveningen
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Yeah... 
Got slightly confused.
and orange juice is also very nice. And easy to say in dutch.
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Oh, and I found 's-Hertogenbosch harder to get my tongue around.
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easy: Den Bosch
Like 's-gravenhage.. its DEN HAAG. Stupid old dutch.
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OK, yes I did know that. Loved den Bosch. But the beach at den Haag is still refered to as 's-Gravenhage isn't it?
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True, Scheveningen is part of The Hague, but don't tell the residents that..
Both Den Bosch and Den Haag have similar backgrounds in origin, but we got lazy and these newer names, well, they're less hard on foreigners
Now, about the G-sound (SOUND), I never quite understood how a nation of Germans with horrific words like Schmetterling (butterfly) have trouble making that sound..
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OK, yes I did know that. Loved den Bosch. But the beach at den Haag is still refered to as 's-Gravenhage isn't it?
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No, that is scheveningen
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Yeah... Got slightly confused.
and orange juice is also very nice. And easy to say in dutch.
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What's REALLY funny, is listening to Dutch people speak English.
Or should I say... "ssshpeek Englissshh"
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That are only who did not have English lessons since Middle school, like most of our government officials
I am so ashamed when I see those guys trying to speak English...
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Ok thats true. Some of the high dutch idio.. people really speak english like they only did some english for dummies.
I've been in UK for 3 months, the people over there really were amazed about my english and how i speak, often even better and more understandable then the citizens.
And them ladies in the pub, they liked the accent
But i believe irish people can pronounce the G, from that uberlong townname ending at gogogoch or such.
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A Dutch friend of mine bought me a Dutch for Dummie's book. Even with the audio CD, I can't make the sounds needed...
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The first thing i learned my ex gf, was the onion: ui. So she could at least pronounce it.
So the whole day long she was going: uiwwwww uiwwwwww uiwwww.
Anyway, this is a great one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXkTGiF9bU4
At a certain point he says : godverdomme (at the circle of old ladies), then u know how to say g or ch.
And ofcourse.. ZAKJE!
The most cool thing about dutch, basicly nobody in the world can understand it (apart from old colonies of the netherlands). Even germans hardly can understand us, while we can pretty much understand them (well, those who did a bit of german).
And that, by far, is the best thing about dutch, you can scold someone while smiling at him, he still thinks you're giving him compliments
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