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Still a little odd, as the Dutch are generally considered to be the best non-native speakers of English in Europe.
by eldina 15y ago
Still a little odd, as the Dutch are generally considered to be the best non-native speakers of English in Europe.
- mauro_oto 15y agoFoton is spanish for Photon, I guess it's the same way in Dutch. (It is)
- mladenkovacevic 15y agoI'd imagine Photon is spelt Foton in pretty much any phonetic language in the world (or as they would say fonetic lol)
- kachnuv_ocasek 15y agoYou mean fonetik?
- mladenkovacevic 15y agoHaha yes, pardon me.
- nknight 15y agoWhile most of the Dutch people I've heard speak did so with perfectly fluent English (and American accents -- thank you, Hollywood), you're unwittingly assuming he's relatively young -- my understanding is that, not surprisingly, levels of English fluency drop off somewhat rapidly with age in the current Dutch population.
- eldina 15y agoHe got his phd in 2000, so I assumed he was reasonably young :)
- Gmo 15y agoThis comment will probably never be read, but nevertheless ... I am a Frenchman living in the Netherlands. And you are both correct and incorrect ... The Dutch are probably among the most fluent non-native English speakers in Europe, BUT, they speak for most of them a "good enough" English, and not at all a perfect English. This usually materializes even more when they are writing. There is even several books (usually written by Dutch authors themselves) making fun of "dutchisms". That said, I don't necessarily consider myself better ... Simply, I do other kind of mistakes, so their mistakes usually strike me more than my own mistakes of course, but mistakes of other French speakers as well