"Wildemar Wildenburger" <lasses_w...so.net> wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > > "Wildemar Wildenburger" <lasse....eso.net> wrote: > > > >> (By the way: Accusing a German of racism is almost too easy an insult. > >> Not that I had taken any, just saying.) > > > > I always thought that it would be insulting to a German if you accused > > him or her of not being a racist... > > > Very funny, Herr Dutsh-Mann. Afrikaans, not Dutch. >>Dude, hailing from South Africa with a > Dutch name, I'd be careful with the word racist. That of course being > based on the fact that in South Africa the term never had relevance and > thus meaning. Hence I understand that you probably have as much > understanding of the term "racism", as we have of "a welcome Jew". Or, > for that matter, a "a Dutchman that is pleasant to listen to". Burn! ;) I really must apologise for my accent - but then I was once mistaken for a Scot by an Englishwoman in Hong Kong. But you know, it is like being ugly - its not so bad for the perpetrator, it really bothers other people more. Is there an equivalent of Godwin's law with "Hitler" being replaced by "Apartheid" ? - there should be, in my opinion. In that respect Germany and South Africa are similar - They both have murky pasts. > Sidenote: Its funny that everybody calls the Dutch "Dutch" (when > speaking English), which pretty much is the word "deutsch", which, guess > what, means "German" (cf. Pennsylvania Dutch). That has always baffled > me --- do Dutch people refer to themselves as "Dutch" when speaking > dutch? The term for "Dutch" is "Nederlands" or "Hollands", isn't it? Yes to both - with the "Ne" pronounced similar to English "neigh'... One of these days I will try to learn to speak the language of my ancestors. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
