Yesterday, I received a nice little e-mail from Xander. It was a very short, early Happy Mother's Day greeting. At the end of the letter, he wrote a few lines in Dutch, knowing that I would cut and paste the Dutch into our Mac's Translator widget to find out what he wrote. I laughed out loud when I read it.
I'm pretty sure that he meant to write "best" instead of "beest" because after a little research, "best" is the same in both languages, but is probably pronounced with a long e in Dutch. Beest = Animal. He just misspelled "dankbaar" which means grateful or thankful. Can't really figure out the last phrase. I know it has something to do with when I sent a package containing some treats and notes for other missionaries in his district.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
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I lol'ed much. Seems its pretty rough translating from dutch to english.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that the X is surving the compound. Those were some rough 14 weeks for me. Gross.
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