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Richard Longwood said:

Click this if you're Flemish...

So nobody else is allowed to read Dutch or something?

Flemish DOES NOT EQUAL Ducth.

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Richard Longwood said:

Click this if you're Flemish...

So nobody else is allowed to read Dutch or something?

Richard Longwood said:

Flemish DOES NOT EQUAL Ducth.

So what? The pages you were giving the URLs to were in Dutch.Just as
American does not equal English, the fact that two adjectives of
geographical attribution are unequal has nothing to do with defining
language use (assuming that that is your point). See the first
paragraph of article 4 of the Belgian constitution.

Roger

Richard Longwood said:

Click this if you're Flemish...

http://www.vrtnieuws.net/sport_master/wielrennen/tour/040705_rit02_mcewenreactie/index.html

http://www.vrtnieuws.net/sport_master/wielrennen/hoofdpunten/wielrennen_nieuwsoverzicht/index.html

http://www.vrtnieuws.net/sport_master/wielrennen/tour/A_Nieuws_Tour/index.html

When I'm flemish I just use my farmer's handkerchief.

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Richard Longwood said:

Click this if you're Flemish...

So nobody else is allowed to read Dutch or something?

Only in Belgium the videos can be played.

Roger Hughes said:

language use (assuming that that is your point).

Never assume, it makes an ass out of you and me. It was Belgian news on
a Belgian site about the Belgian Australian from a Belgian team talking
in Dutch, the language of Flanders. I can see how it might appeal more
to Flemish people than anyone else.

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:36:29 +0200, Ewoud Dronkert <[email hidden]>

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Roger Hughes said:

language use (assuming that that is your point).

Never assume, it makes an ass out of you and me. It was Belgian news on
a Belgian site about the Belgian Australian from a Belgian team talking
in Dutch, the language of Flanders. I can see how it might appeal more
to Flemish people than anyone else.

Or Australians. Or anyone else interested in cycling who can read or
understand Dutch.

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 06:59:27 GMT, "Bart Van Hoorebeeck" <[email hidden]>

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Only in Belgium the videos can be played.

Maar er zijn toch in België wonende mens die geen vlamingen zijn...

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On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:36:29 +0200, Ewoud Dronkert <[email hidden]>

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Roger Hughes said:

language use (assuming that that is your point).

Never assume, it makes an ass out of you and me. It was Belgian news on
a Belgian site about the Belgian Australian from a Belgian team talking
in Dutch, the language of Flanders. I can see how it might appeal more
to Flemish people than anyone else.

Or Australians. Or anyone else interested in cycling who can read or
understand Dutch.

I agree, and would like to point out that Flemish TV always calls the
language they speak 'dutch', not 'flemish'. I'm not sure if there is an
official separate flemish language, like there is frisian, but I think the
difference is more like dutch vs. twentish - officially not separate
languages, but difficult to speak and understand anyway. I suspect flemish
is a dialect of dutch, or rather a group of dialects, and would also be
surprised if flemish is written differently from ABN dutch.

In fact, while american english and english have different spellings, I
don't think there is a different spelling in Flanders. They might say
'wentelwiek' to what we call a helicopter, but there's no doubt about how to
spell these words.

Jonathan.