Paul Rubin schreef: > "Martin P. Hellwig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Indeed it's not Afrikaans but just incorrect use of Dutch and not >> related to python. > > It was apparently posted by someone with a .be address, so I'll guess > it was written a Belgian French speaker who knows some Dutch. The > "me" vs "mijn" error sounds like something a French speaker might have > done.
To me (as a Belgian Dutch speaker) it sounds more like someone writing phonetically (probably because of a low education or low interest in writing correctly) and being from the Netherlands (since the pronunciation of 'mijn' sounds more like 'me' there then in Flanders). It's not unlike the use of "I should of" instead of "I should've" or "I should have" in English, though much less common. At least I think and hope it's much less common, but actually I don't read all that much forums, newsgroups etc. in Dutch. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
