To: tejek who wrote (341340 ) 6/27/2007 6:01:59 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Respond to Re: Why did 400 Dutch families suddenly pick up and move to Belgium? But what is your mother tongue? Platdutch . Even though I've got a fair grasp of the Dutch language while French is my daily language.Why have the Dutch come over here in the Fourons? But those Dutch, they don't have any political agenda with regard to the Fourons, do they? Voeren 2000 [Fourons 2000 in Dutch]. However, some of them, who left Holland together with their children (while still working in Holland) eventually socialize here and, expectedly, they do it in Dutch, not in French. Since Flemish authorities set up a somewhat useless provincial school, that's where they register they school-age children.We still wonder about the Dutch coming over here. Some say that the state border (between Holland and Belgium), isolates the Fourons into a, say, non-Germanic entity, turning it into an enclave, soon to fall into [Francophone] Liège's orbit, like Visé and other cities already under Liège's urban spell. Considering the importance of the French language in Fourons, how come Dutch newcomers don't socialize in French? geocities.com geocities.com
