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As for ko and gram, they're just anglicizations. If I'm writing a story or something, it's useful not to have to worry about ħ. All the major food crops of Almea have anglicized or calqued names.

GNOME has handy keystrokes for most of the strange characters.

e.g. ħ is alt+H

Dutch fun: angstschreeuw (scream of fear): eight consonants aŋstsχreeüw (pronounciation approx.) hottentottententententoonstelling ('exposition of the Hottentot tents.' Don't ask me what Hottentots are) de kat krabt de krollen van de trap This phrase is used to practice the 'rolling' r. In some Dutc...

Renaissance/early baroque ftw.


L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi was the last thing I listened to today. Before that: Mateo Flecha's Ensaladas, to be precise: El Fuego, La Negrina and La Justa.

I tend to speak a mixture of Antwerp Dutch and Fl.-Brabant Dutch, since my mother is from Brussels, while my father is from Antwerp. Most people at my school speak the Brabant dialect, though. (I live on the provincial border between Antwerp and Brabant)