Re: NATLANG: Dutch (jara: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:

> "Verstaan" can be used in two cases: when you cannot understand somebody's
> words because the person speaks unclearly, too quickly, or because there is too
> much ambient noise; and when it concerns a whole language (in the latter case
> it is more or less equivalent to "kennen").
Hmm.  Is there a Dutch translation of the famous tale by Johann Peter Hebel,
"Kannitverstan"?  There are several English ones.

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