Thread: Koordenwinkel?

Originally Posted by Rogier

I'm kind of embarrassed I actually know what it means... 6 years of school in Brugge...

Gotta love the language !
I certainly do ^^

Originally Posted by Dimitry

Gotta love the language !
I certainly do ^^

I kind of like it in some situations(but not as much as my own dialect!) But it really bothers me that, no matter where you come from, in most situations people don't bother to speak AN. Not even trying.

Originally Posted by Rogier

I kind of like it in some situations(but not as much as my own dialect!) But it really bothers me that, no matter where you come from, in most situations people don't bother to speak AN. Not even trying.

That is certainly a fact!

I once argued that schools should forcibly use AN for teaching students.
Many people disagreed, and told me that the dialect is a valuable root to the past etc.
In a way, this is true, but I also think it is ridiculous that kids are trained to speak in a way that means they'll be very hard to understand, only 50 kilometers from their birthplace.

It's not like Dutch is insignificant enough already, we're actively hamstringing ourselves from being understood throughout a country the size of new york city.

There is no biological reason that someone from Brugge has problems pronouncing the 'g'.
the only reason is that the parents / teachers hamstrung the kids from the get go.
The same applies to kids in e.g. Hamont-achel, but with the letter 'a' (which is pronounced more like 'ooaa' (voor de lange 'aa' tenminste)).

What ticks me off even more are people who then complain that 'they' are the ones having to make an effort to be understood in a mixed company.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I once argued that schools should forcibly use AN for teaching students.
Many people disagreed, and told me that the dialect is a valuable root to the past etc.
In a way, this is true, but I also think it is ridiculous that kids are trained to speak in a way that means they'll be very hard to understand, only 50 kilometers from their birthplace.

It's not like Dutch is insignificant enough already, we're actively hamstringing ourselves from being understood throughout a country the size of new york city.

There is no biological reason that someone from Brugge has problems pronouncing the 'g'.
the only reason is that the parents / teachers hamstrung the kids from the get go.
The same applies to kids in e.g. Hamont-achel, but with the letter 'a' (which is pronounced more like 'ooaa' (voor de lange 'aa' tenminste)).

What ticks me off even more are people who then complain that 'they' are the ones having to make an effort to be understood in a mixed company.

I think it's most important that in primary school and secondary school AN is spoken by the teachers. And spoken properly!(Met uitzondering van gij en ge, dat zijn gevestigde waarden in Vlaanderen en we zouden ons beter niet dat ge-jij/je laten opleggen door de Nederlanders, dunkt me.) Of course, in shop class, the language isn't as important as in Dutch class. But there has to be a minimum, especially if we want to be part of the globalizing society and if we want to stimulate immigrants to learn the language properly.

Just saw this on youtube, couldn't help posting it here: