"What is Holland?" "What do you mean, 'what is it?' It's a country right next to Belgium." "No, that's the Netherlands." "Holland is the Netherlands." "Then who are the Dutch!!?"
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lol, I am sitting in the Amsterdam airport reading this. We are flying home (Houston) today after spending a week hanging out in The Netherlands and Belgium. I just have to ask, what set you off about this?
that's up there with "Where are you from?" "Texas." "Where in Texas?" "Corpus Christi." *long pause* "Where's that?" "In the south, on the coast..." "Texas has a coast?"
When they get drunk in bars (which happens with great regularity as far as I can tell) they like to ask Americans their stance on euthanasia and Bush. It is fun to agree with them and watch them try and figure out what to do.
Technically, isn't Hollan only one part of the Netherlands (which, I think is where Michael Jackson and Peter Pan lives... right?)?
"That's what SHE said. " - Michael Gary Scott, born March 15, 1964. In SPANISH, we only say "Holanda" and not anything 'netherlandsish' like yous English speakers... suckers...
There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other cultures...and the Dutch.
It's all just different parts of Flanders, where they speak Flemish. A strange language that sounds like this: Howdidilly Do?
By "send my article" do you mean you tried to start a new thread and could not? If so, it is because you are a rookie and rookies can't start threads. What you should do is contribute positively in threads that have been started and you'll eventually be promoted. Then, you can post your article. (And, please do not try to hijack an existing thread just because you can't start your own. You'll never get promoted like that. There's a reason why the board doesn't allow rookies to start threads.)
In Middle English, the Deutschlanders were called High Dutch, while Nederlanders were called Low Dutch. At some point, the English adopted the word German, from the Latin Germania for the Deutschlanders, but kept calling the Nederlanders Low Dutch, and eventually just Dutch.
"The proper name of the area in both Dutch and English is "Holland". "Holland" is a part of the Netherlands. "Holland" is informally and quite incorrectly used in some languages to mean the whole of the modern country of the Netherlands. (This example of pars pro toto or synecdoche is similar to the tendency to refer to the United Kingdom as "England".)"
errrr....wrong... Spanish is not my native tongue but when i studied in spain i learned that they called it either holanda or pais bajos or something like that....basically netherlands but in spanish. right back at you
Los Países Bajos, not "pais" back at ya... and you know... sometimes we post things for MANY MANY people... not just YOU... Los Países Bajos are THE NETHERLANDS, which are part of the NETHERLANDS KINGDOM, which are the and THE LOWER ANTILLES and ARUBA. Damn, we keep digging ourselves further down the freakin' hole...
yeah my spanish is not very pretty when i write, but for that matter neither is my english(without spellcheck)...The point was you claimed that in spanish you do not use netherlands and I was Refuting it…I don’t see where I was wrong…they use los paises bajos in spain.
