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::::::::::Hi Sharon W. That is a very literal translation, but it should convince Conservative that I am not making anything up here. [[User:Baobab|Baobab]]
 
::::::::::Hi Sharon W. That is a very literal translation, but it should convince Conservative that I am not making anything up here. [[User:Baobab|Baobab]]
 
:::::::::::My grandfather came from Nieuw Beerta, and my father speaks Dutch fairly well. Me, I can translate the papers I receive from the Netherlands for my genealogy research with the aid of my Hippocrene Dutch-English dictionary, but my grammar is extremely shaky. But I gave it my best shot. [[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 19:34, 12 August 2012 (EDT)
 
:::::::::::My grandfather came from Nieuw Beerta, and my father speaks Dutch fairly well. Me, I can translate the papers I receive from the Netherlands for my genealogy research with the aid of my Hippocrene Dutch-English dictionary, but my grammar is extremely shaky. But I gave it my best shot. [[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 19:34, 12 August 2012 (EDT)
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::::::::::::What a coincidence: my father is from exactly that region in the province of Groningen! As were his ancestors. [[User:Baobab|Baobab]] 03:24, 13 August 2012 (EDT)
    
::::Conservative, I can't afford to pay a translator. Biblical Christians famously tend to have a lack of cultural and linguistic curiosity, but surely one of your fellow administrators, friends or colleagues must have a working knowledge of Dutch, the language of the country where the Pilgrim Fathers spent some time before going to England and embarking on the Mayflower.
 
::::Conservative, I can't afford to pay a translator. Biblical Christians famously tend to have a lack of cultural and linguistic curiosity, but surely one of your fellow administrators, friends or colleagues must have a working knowledge of Dutch, the language of the country where the Pilgrim Fathers spent some time before going to England and embarking on the Mayflower.
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