Billy Shears
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« Reply #30 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 14:38:23 » |
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I'm going to carry on calling them holland
As will many - why broaden your mind and learn new things, eh? |
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Rich Pullen
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« Reply #31 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 14:52:15 » |
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The Dutch are to blame for the confusion. I hope they're ashamed with themselves.
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Ginginho
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« Reply #32 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 15:00:46 » |
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I know some Dutch people who refer to their country as Holland.
No-one ever gets corrected for calling it Holland, whether this is strictly incorrect or not, Holland is an accepted name for the Netherlands.
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Colin Todd
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« Reply #33 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 15:36:35 » |
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As will many - why broaden your mind and learn new things, eh?
because I'd probably end up sounding like a smug prick like your good self |
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Billy Shears
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« Reply #34 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 15:40:03 » |
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because I'd probably end up sounding like a smug prick like your good self
Not smug - I was corrected on this very topic in this very thread, and I learned something. I just think its nice to learn things and use them. To be given the gift of knowledge and refuse it is, in my mind, very wasteful. |
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« Reply #35 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 15:43:25 » |
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Calling The Netherlands "Holland" is like calling England "Greater London". Funnily enough they rarely capitalise their country name, only proper names (i.e. people's names). When they even bother to do that. The dutch hate the shift key  Funny that you should comment on their capitalisation of their country name, seeing as you got it wrong. It's "the Netherlands", unless it's at the start of a sentence. |
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Colin Todd
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« Reply #36 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 15:43:50 » |
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Look, does anyone really give a shit if its called the Netherlands or Holland? Apparantly even the dutch dont care themselves.
Theres learning new things and just being pedantic. If I say I've just been to Holland, people will think of windmills, clogs, dykes people dressed in orange and know what i'm on about.
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« Reply #37 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 15:49:49 » |
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Funny that you should comment on their capitalisation of their country name, seeing as you got it wrong.
It's "the Netherlands", unless it's at the start of a sentence.
In English. I'm commenting on their county name in their language. Though going by wikipedia I was still wrong - the n should be in upper case. However in my experience very few dutch peeps do that. As I said, they hate the shift key when writing in their own language. Funnily enough they often capitalize correctly when writing in English (not surprising if you've ever seen their English tests, harder than ours!). |
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Ginginho
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« Reply #38 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 16:15:56 » |
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If I say I've just been to Holland, people will think of windmills, clogs, dykes people dressed in orange and know what i'm on about.
Exactly, everyone knows that the Netherlands is where Peter Pan was from, sheesh. |
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« Reply #39 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 18:48:51 » |
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Its all Double Dutch to me,or is it Double Netherlands or Double Holland?
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« Reply #40 on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 20:03:42 » |
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Anyone been to Amsterdam recently? Have they brought in a smoking ban? How will the cafes cope with that?
Smoking ban has been in effect for at least two years now. Last year they were pretty sharp on it and there were just a few "cafes" where you could smoke but they couldn't serve alcohol. This year when we went pretty much every bar we went in was back to smoking again. |
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