[AccessD] For Lembit

I'm shocked, Martin! You can't speak Dutch? I've only been there 6 times 
but I'm quite the aficionado. My favourite Dutch is the word for vacuum 
cleaner. My spelling may be off by I am assured that my pronunciation is 
coming along just fine.

Stopfzaugher = vacuum cleaner, but you have to hear it to believe it 
LOL. I've practised that word thousands of times.

Then there is the really tricky one, the name of a coastal town. Dutch 
has lots of wonderful sounds. The town to which I refer is Scheveningen, 
but there is a "hidden" L in the SCH part of the word. It takes a LOT of 
practice to say it correctly.

Recently I was in Vancouver airport and the person checking me in had a 
Dutch accent. (Aside from the fact that she was drop-dead-gorgeous, 
blond and blue-eyed, as are almost all Dutch women, I can spot a Dutch 
accent in English instantly.)  So I inquired and she said yes, and I 
told her my favourite two Dutch words, then pronounced them. She laughed 
out loud. She said, "Perfect! I can't believe it." I told her about my 
hours of practice and she told me a WWII story. The Dutch used to ask 
people to say Schevningen because Germans couldn't say it. That was the 
trick question they used to identify German spies.

It happens that this year is a good year for Dutch-Canadian relations. I 
have lots of tulips in my front yard, in honour of Nederlands. I have 
been to about 30 countries and was nowhere treated so well as there. And 
incidentally, I have been to Schevningen, Rotterdam, and even the 
Aalsmeer flower market, the largest in the world.

Canada and Holland have a special relationship. Thanks for providing 
that text. I'm far from fluent but most of it was obvious. I haven't 
been back for about 8 years. It's time!

Arthur

Martin Reid wrote:

> Lembit
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> Could you translate please
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> Mijn naam is Jan Peeters en ben student handelsingenieur aan de KUL.  
> Voor het vak "beleidsinformatica" heb ik de opdracht gekregen om een 
> gevallenstudie uit te voeren waarin ten minste 3 thema's van de cursus 
> aan bod komen.  Ik zal eerst een paar voorbeelden geven van de 
> thema's: herbruikbaarheid in informatica systemen, overerving, 
> persistentie en materialisatie, het gebruik van XML, web services, 
> verschillende soorten databases, architecturen, SQL en hoe de 
> bedrijfsstrategie eruit ziet met behulp van informatica.
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> Als er bij u in de organisatie verschillende thema's aan bod komen zou 
> ik zeer graag de mogelijkheid krijgen om uw bedrijf als casestudy te 
> nemen.
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