XPost: be.politics, fr.soc.politique, soc.culture.belgium   
   XPost: soc.culture.quebec   
   From: Fustigator@xs4all.nl   
      
   Vitae forma vocatur Dietse Knaap , die Tue, 22 Nov   
   2005 07:27:17 GMT, in littera   
    in foro be.politics(et   
   aliis) vere scripsit quod sequitur:   
      
   >Fustigator schreef:   
   >> Vitae forma vocatur Dietse Knaap , die Mon, 21 Nov   
   >> 2005 20:02:30 GMT, in littera   
   >>  in foro be.politics(et   
   >> aliis) vere scripsit quod sequitur:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>Fustigator schreef:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>>Definitely not. French is a language with high ambitions and those who   
   >>>>>speak it see it as the peak of evolution. In fact it's just a farmer   
   >>>>>language. That's the difference with Dutch: we all know we're not a   
   >>>>>global language.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Défécation taurine.   
   >>>   
   >>>There are about 22 million native speakers. Dutch isn't a global   
   >>>language and has no ambition to be one.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> So what?   
   >>   
   >   
   >We know what we are   
      
   Why are then so many "taal-ibans"(linguistic fanatics)  in Flanders   
   and not in Holland?   
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