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Tag Archives: Onze Taal
Hen and hun in Dutch. Or: How to Make a Usage Problem Go Away
This is Amos van Baalen’s second blogpost for last semester’s MA course Non-Standard English: Modern Dutch technically does not have a case system anymore. Remnants of this system occur in many set expressions, such as te allen tijde “at all … Continue reading
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Tagged hun/hen, Onze Taal, Wouter van Wingerden
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Dutch letters to the editor
In my experience, letters to the editor are not a frequent phenomenon in Dutch newspapers, at least not when they deal with language, and in any case not in the daily newspaper I read, NRC Handelsblad. A while ago I … Continue reading
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