Posted 18 October 2015 - 08:46 AM
Charlie Nom, on 15 October 2015 - 06:40 PM, said:
dutch really sounds like 'knor, knor'
Thanks, Charlie. (I always imagined it would sound very harsh and guttural to foreigners because of the
"hard G")
Anyway, I'm not a native speaker of English, my first language is Dutch. Although a lot of what I do for a living involves English in one way or another, it's usually receptive, such as reading research papers or listening to talks. I should probably work on my expressive skills in English.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'