Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 16:06 GMT
Its time for another block buster! And next to 'what do you know about the Dutch' and the current hit 'the Afrikaner language thread this was the most succesfull forum ever to be seen on Antimoon!(and its still playing)
But!since this was a rather political topic,there have to me a few changes...
I see belgium as an example that 2 languages can really revoke eachother but can't go without eachother.
This topic can house things like:
-minority languages
-language battles
-germanic vs romance
-dutch/french
-flemish-walloon
-the title
-etc.
So lets get started!
(Louvain-la-neuve) January 11, 2005
Hi all.
I'm from Belgium......No actually I am from Wallonia (that's to say southern Belgium). Belgium is a country divided into 2 main linguistic communities:
- the Flemish in the north who speak a Dutch dialect
- the Walloon in the south who speak French (and actually who are French)
All along the 20Th century, the Flemish tried to separate from us because they don't like our French culture (and also because they have been prevented from speaking Flemish because it was bad-regarded in the 19 th century), and now the Flemish fascist party (the Vlaams belang) is becoming the first party in Flanders (many of its historical leaders are former nazis...)
Therefore, as a Walloon, I consider myself as a French person. My mother tongue is French and my "cultural homeland" is France.
Belgium is nothing but a mistake in the history created by diplomatic powers such as Great Britain and Germany in 1830.
Anyways, in 20 years Belgium will be dead. So I think Wallonia will have to be annexed by France, because we are French!!!
next messages:
(Jean-Pierre)
Don't you have a wee bit of dignity ? Wallon is a very old dialect of french , you might even call it a regional language ( I presume you don't even speak this dialect ). It's people like you that bring your fellow-wallons down ! I love our flemish neighbours and I think we did some nasty things to them in the past :
- We didn't allow Flemish to be an official language of Belgium
- We started moving up the language-frontier and now almost 80 % of Brussels is wallon ( while it was and should be a flemish city )
- We use A LOT more money than the Flemish . We wallons have a total number of 3000 000 people and the Flemish 6000 000
So what you're saying is neither true or fair !
But!since this was a rather political topic,there have to me a few changes...
I see belgium as an example that 2 languages can really revoke eachother but can't go without eachother.
This topic can house things like:
-minority languages
-language battles
-germanic vs romance
-dutch/french
-flemish-walloon
-the title
-etc.
So lets get started!
(Louvain-la-neuve) January 11, 2005
Hi all.
I'm from Belgium......No actually I am from Wallonia (that's to say southern Belgium). Belgium is a country divided into 2 main linguistic communities:
- the Flemish in the north who speak a Dutch dialect
- the Walloon in the south who speak French (and actually who are French)
All along the 20Th century, the Flemish tried to separate from us because they don't like our French culture (and also because they have been prevented from speaking Flemish because it was bad-regarded in the 19 th century), and now the Flemish fascist party (the Vlaams belang) is becoming the first party in Flanders (many of its historical leaders are former nazis...)
Therefore, as a Walloon, I consider myself as a French person. My mother tongue is French and my "cultural homeland" is France.
Belgium is nothing but a mistake in the history created by diplomatic powers such as Great Britain and Germany in 1830.
Anyways, in 20 years Belgium will be dead. So I think Wallonia will have to be annexed by France, because we are French!!!
next messages:
(Jean-Pierre)
Don't you have a wee bit of dignity ? Wallon is a very old dialect of french , you might even call it a regional language ( I presume you don't even speak this dialect ). It's people like you that bring your fellow-wallons down ! I love our flemish neighbours and I think we did some nasty things to them in the past :
- We didn't allow Flemish to be an official language of Belgium
- We started moving up the language-frontier and now almost 80 % of Brussels is wallon ( while it was and should be a flemish city )
- We use A LOT more money than the Flemish . We wallons have a total number of 3000 000 people and the Flemish 6000 000
So what you're saying is neither true or fair !