Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.ai,net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: natural language deficiencies? Message-ID: <638@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 21:58:49 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.638 Posted: Sun Oct 28 21:58:49 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 05:22:51 EST References: <12582@sri-arpa.UUCP> <367@tjalk.UUCP> <6124@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Confuser Science Lines: 12 [stofzuiger] > There is no way, reasonable or not, to render Dutch 'gezellig' into English. > This is also SURELY a language deficiency. For the benefit of those few net readers who don't know Dutch, I recall a drawing by the Dutch cartoonist "Peter" of two men in shirtsleeves, seated on either side of an (opened) case of beer. The caption, spoken by one of the men, is: "Gezellig toch?" :*} -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel