From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>*grin*
Subject: RE: Chapter by Chapter summary/discussion of a different Brin book?
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:27:34 +0100
At 10:48 10-2-2003 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
First you say it's "mostly untranslateable", then you go on to give a fairly accurate translation. Lovely... :-)Only accepting the outcome of the vote if you like it is so... Bush-ist...Perhaps adopting a personal policy of gedogen might be in order?
<GRIN>
For the rest of the list, that's a mostly untranslateable Dutch term for 'tolerance of minor offenses'.
I did a bit of reading about it on Sat nite on the net. Good to see I learned something. :)
I know perhaps 3 to 5 words and that's it. Have friends who lived in Antwerp and Rotterdam for the last couple of years. Before that, a year in Belgium. Spent time with them this weekend (they moved back to Jersey a few months ago) and we talked politics.(You can pick your jaw up off the floor now, Jeroen...) *laughter*So, when, where and why did you learn The Mother of All Languages?Jeroen "Speaker of Foreign Tongues" van Baardwijk
I've borrowed some old West Wing episodes on tape from them that I'd missed. Apparently they have Dutch subtitles, so, who knows, I may pick up another word or phrase here or there. :)
Jon
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