Suriname

bhoeyb · Post by **bhoeyb** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 5:26 pm

I want to welcome 'Ryanto' our first active user from Suriname since it's added to the country list. Ryanto added already 34 Euro banknotes

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Let's hope he / she'll add more and there will be an invasion of Suriman users

. A hit from Europe to Suriname, that would be wonderfull.
BTW, he / she's also one of my new referers

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groentje · Post by **groentje** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:58 pm

Are Montenegro, Kosova, and others also listed?

Fundamental · Post by **Fundamental** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 1:42 pm

Do they speak dutch in Surinam? Or is it just my imagination ?

nodisch18 · Post by **nodisch18** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 1:47 pm

Suriname is a old Colonie from holland. In 1975 they got their own counrty back from us.

Most of the people overthere speak dutch. And some other native languages.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 1:54 pm

nodisch18 wrote:Suriname is a old Colonie from holland. In 1975 they got their own counrty back from us.

Most of the people overthere speak dutch. And some other native languages.

As far as I know, Surinam used to be Dutch Guyana. Guyana was divided with three countries: Netherlands, France and UK. I think British Guyana is independent nowadays but French Guyana still belongs to France and they use euros.

I've heard nowadays there are more Surinami people in Netherlands than in Surinam.

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:53 am

Aaron wrote:
nodisch18 wrote:Suriname is a old Colonie from holland. In 1975 they got their own counrty back from us.

Most of the people overthere speak dutch. And some other native languages.
As far as I know, Surinam used to be Dutch Guyana. Guyana was divided with three countries: Netherlands, France and UK. I think British Guyana is independent nowadays but French Guyana still belongs to France and they use euros.

I've heard nowadays there are more Surinami people in Netherlands than in Surinam.

I never knew Suriname used to be Dutch Guyana, but I do know that in
the beginning Suriname was British, but we (the Dutch) got Suriname and
gave away Nieuw-Amsterdam, nowadays known as New York...

This definitely is the worst deal we ever made...

nodisch18 · Post by **nodisch18** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:59 am

I know another story.

Back in the early days the important people in America had to vote what would be their number one language. English won from Dutch with only one vote!!!!

To bad! It would be really great if everybody would speak dutch!

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:07 am

nodisch18 wrote:I know another story.

Back in the early days the important people in America had to vote what would be their number one language. English won from Dutch with only one vote!!!!

To bad! It would be really great if everybody would speak dutch!

I wonder what would Texan Dutch sound like...

I've heard that also German was a strong candidate to be voted as the nr 1 language.

!Pretfles! · Post by **!Pretfles!** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:10 am

will English remain language nr1 till the end of time
or will it change and howcome?

I often wonder.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:45 am

!Pretfles! wrote:will English remain language nr1 till the end of time
or will it change and howcome?

I think it will stay biggest long time in the future as well. English will remain as lingua franca.

I don't have any idea of good challengers... Most of the other big languages, as Chinese, Hindi, Russian and Arabic do not use Latin alphabets and that makes them difficult to break through.

French and even more German won't be able to beat English.

If the significance of South and Central America will rise up, Spanish will become much more famous. Its benefits are latin alphabets and easy grammar. On the top of that, written and spoken Spanish correspond each other - you can't say this about English and definitely not about French.

!Pretfles! · Post by **!Pretfles!** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:52 am

Who's bread people eat
who's language people speak

what about the enlarging economical influence of the far East

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:03 pm

Aaron wrote:
!Pretfles! wrote:will English remain language nr1 till the end of time
or will it change and howcome?
I think it will stay biggest long time in the future as well. English will remain as lingua franca.

I don't have any idea of good challengers... Most of the other big languages, as Chinese, Hindi, Russian and Arabic do not use Latin alphabets and that makes them difficult to break through.

One of the languages you mentioned will be the most powerful in the future. That means the other people will also have to learn the alphabetics of that language. If the most powerful language is English, then everyone has to learn latin alphabetics. If the most powerful language is Hindi, then everyone (including us Europeans) will have to learn those alphabetics.
I guess Arabian language might be growing its influence now that the glorius mr Bush is waging his lovely holy war against the Arabian population and things like Mecca cola are rising from the dust of Sahara.
As we've been discussing here before, the importance of USA - and maybe English language with it - seems to be starting to go down into dungeons again.
an example: in Finland the market share of cheap colas has grown quite fast. I'm quite sure that's because of where Coca Cola company and Pepsico are coming from. At least most of my friends who've done the "switch" have done it at least almost solely because of ethical (oslt) issues.

I'd say the next powerful language will come from Asia. I don't know where from Asia, but I'm rather positive about that it'll come from Asia anyway. Maybe it's Chinese, maybe it's Arabian. Or maybe Hindi. Who knows. A billion people can't be wrong, now can they? We western people (EU+USA+.ca) make together almost that, too. But not as much as Indians alone.

BogPoet · Post by **BogPoet** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:05 pm

!Pretfles! wrote:will English remain language nr1 till the end of time
or will it change and howcome?

I often wonder.

Historically, it doesn't seem very likely that it will last forever. In the last few centuries, we had Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French and German as common languages (this in Europe alone) - and they all eventually ended up being replaced. English will be replaced as well some day.

As for the "one vote" folks tale, here's an explanation. (It talks about German, not Dutch)

nodisch18 · Post by **nodisch18** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:17 pm

Okay…, i followed the link and they say that most of my story isn't true

Let me explain how i got the story:

When i was in Highschool i had a histroyteacher and she told me the legend. And offcourse I was willing to believe this story because it was to good to be true!

To bad it is not …..

PS: The link you mentioned is a really great site. Maybe i will discover more interesting facts!

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:20 am

groentje wrote:Are Montenegro, Kosova, and others also listed?

Yes, they are!

BTW, here is the link of the bank of surinam: http://www.cbvs.sr/

“On January 1, 2004 by law the Surinamese guilder (SRG) will change into the dollar, whereas common language will refer to it as the Surinamese dollar (SR$). With this the people of Suriname will get a new chance with a new currency”.

(press release)