Ruud Broens wrote:
"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote in message
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: Sander deWaal wrote:
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: Hey! I had nothing to do with it, I despise weapons of any kind.
:
: I don't believe you. When I was deployed I was stationed with the Royal
: Netherlands Army (as well as the British Army. They don't know how to
: speak American either). I was struck by weird punctuation bombs thrown
: by Dutch soldiers daily, several times. Some of them were nearly fatal.
:
: Rudy, did you? ;-)
:
: Quit trying to pass the buck. You're probably both in on it.
:
S
..not all weapons there's the keyboard , eh
Sh
so good be a true story we're language crazed 
nah ff vlug shoppeh, SF night on the telly
My friend Gert (a major in the Royal Netherlands Army) and I used to
play a joke on the Brits.
He'd tell them he was teaching me Dutch. He'd tell them I was picking
it up so fast that he was almost running out of words to teach me.
They, of course, would not believe him. I'd string together a bunch of
Dutch-sounding noises and Gert would respond. We'd then have a lengthy
'conversation' in Dutch. He'd laugh occasionally and when the Brits
asked what I'd said, it would be some poke at them.
He'd also tell them how 'pure' my accent was. "Like a native of the
Netherlands!" The other Dutch guys would all play along too. The Brits
would sometimes ask me to speak Dutch when Gert wasn't around. Some
other Dutch guy would then 'translate' for me.
We kept that up for a long time. I think those Brits still think that
I'm fluent in Dutch.:-)