Re: Not a translator
jup. there's only about 4 million speakers of real 'flemish' and then there are like 300 dialects.... The rest is Dutch and some south afrikaans (but that is so altered it is a language on its own. Even real 'dutch' is hard for flemish speakers.
The toughest to deal with are the chinese. When in a meeting you need to come to a conclusion and they answer 'basically yes' ... that can mean any of the following
- we have not understood a word of what you said, but we agree with the provision we may alter anything and everything later.
- we agree but we can't tell the higher ups, as that would be impolite , so we don't agree
- we don't agree with anything at all. So 'basically yes' , which translates to 'no'
Biting the hand that feeds IT
