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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 3402519, member: 2844&quot;]Sounds like you are describing the person who claimed that the Dutch spoke German until the 18th century.</p><p>And that we in the south of The Netherlands speak dialects which &quot;are already tending to high german&quot;. Which we don&#039;t, of course, since we speak a Western Frankish type of Dutch closely related to Holland Dutch. In fact Dutch as we know it is mostly based on our type of Dutch and Holland Dutch, with some Western (=Dutch) Saxon elements thrown in.</p><p>People in the southeastern panhandle of the Netherlands speak Limburg-Ripauric, btw, which is a different language from both mainstream Dutch and German,</p><p><br /></p><p>That same person said in a very authoritarian way, and with caps:</p><p>&quot;CASE CLOSED!&quot; after he had spouted this nonsense, which was not in any way fact based.</p><p>Oh, wait a minute, that was you, James. Here it is:</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/old-trunk-chest-how-old.53461/page-2#post-2730246" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/old-trunk-chest-how-old.53461/page-2#post-2730246">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/old-trunk-chest-how-old.53461/page-2#post-2730246</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When I presented the real evidence, including a timeline of Old German which showed it came into being two centuries after Old Dutch, you put me on ignore. I wouldn&#039;t &#039;obey&#039; your authoritarian order.</p><p>As if you block the truth, it doesn&#039;t exist. Very post-truth, but at the same time very unlike this forum where most of us aim to find the truth.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in my opinion, you should look at your own behaviour before you even think of calling anyone else authoritarian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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