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Netherlands news in English

Thanks to a colleague who noticed that I had a hard time reading a Dutch newspaper. She referred me to an online news in the Netherlands in English.

Boy in Holland raises €1,000 for RP orphans

Boy in Holland raises €1,000 for RP orphans
INQUIRER.net
Posted date: August 24, 2009
Source: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/features/people/view/20090824-221800/Bo...

THE NETHERLANDS—Kyle Baleva, 12, was able to raise 1,000 euros for orphaned children in his mother country the Philippines by completing the 30-kilometer-per-day hike of the world’s biggest hiking event the Nijmegen International Four-Day Marches last July 24.

Dutch has sentence homonyms

A homonym, in English, is a word with more than one meaning. An example is the word light. In Dutch, I just learned from a study that a sentence homonym also exists, and the only way to disambiguate them is by context. An example is the following sentence: de verkoopster is te lelijk om te verleiden; which could mean (1)the shopgirl is too ugly to seduce anybody, or (2)the shopgirl is too ugly for anybody to seduce.

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