17 Feb
2002
17 Feb
'02
5:43 p.m.
The Dutch were a major naval power at one time and wrestled the Dutch
East Indies territory from the Portugese. Sumatra was also a colonial
posession of Holland, and the South African presence was for a halfway
point between The Indies and Holland. A friend of mine who was of
Indonesian descent spoke Dutch and gravitated to Holland as a teenager,
much like many British colonists who still view the UK as the mother country
tho they were born in Africa, India, or the West Indies. Surinam, previously
known as Dutch Guiana was the fruits of an abortive attempt at a West
Indies Trading company. The architecture is very Dutch, as is the language.
Lawrence
To name a few ............
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea (Irian Jaya), South Africa,
Surinam, Northern France, Flemish Belgium, Aruba,
Curacao and a lot of far out spacecolonies.
Sipke de Wal
> > Although I am in the Netherlands I am not a
native
> > speaker. I will begin my Dutch language course in
> > April but doubt I will be reading Nederlands
> > very proficiently too soon. :)
>
> Where else do they speak Dutch besides some rural parts of Pennsylvania
> where they generally shun technology? :)
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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