Cricket invented in Belgium....

[Craig]

And colonizing vats chunks of Continent and trying to deny it

Pardon my ignorance, I assume you mean Africa and what countries were made colonies of Belgium? I knew the French got into a large chunck of Africa, in the same way the Spanish went into Central and South America?

 

[Burgey]

Belgian Congo for one.

Appalling treatment of the locals there (nothing unusual about that I suppose) basically becaus ethe King of Belgium wanted an empire like everyone else.

 

[Steulen]

Belgian Congo for one.

Appalling treatment of the locals there (nothing unusual about that I suppose) basically becaus ethe King of Belgium wanted an empire like everyone else.

Yep. The Belgians were a bunch of ***** in Africa even by colonial standards.

 

[Craig]

Yep. The Belgians were a bunch of ***** in Africa even by colonial standards.

Ah yes of course. I understood that the Portugese were the worst of the lot in Africa, especially when they sent the locals off to work in Brazil as slaves to Portugese migraints. The conditions were so bad to say that inhumane or horrible would be an understatement. I'm surprised any of them lasted their enforced trip over.

Anyway I have a question for you Steulen, isn't Flemish a watered down version of Dutch?

 

[Steulen]

Ah yes of course. I understood that the Portugese were the worst of the lot in Africa, especially when they sent the locals off to work in Brazil as slaves to Portugese migraints. The conditions were so bad to say that inhumane or horrible would be an understatement. I'm surprised any of them lasted their enforced trip over.

Anyway I have a question for you Steulen, isn't Flemish a watered down version of Dutch?

The official language of Flanders is Dutch. Flemish is not a language, it is basically the local Dutch dialect. Because I'm originally from just north of the border, I can understand Flemish pretty well because it is similar to the Dtuch dialect (Brabants) I grew up speaking. Having said that, West Flemish is impossible to understand, I can honestly say I would understand Russian better than what the good folk from Ghent speak.

What I like about Flemish is that they are very pure in their Dutch; they have to be because it protects their identity from the evil French-speaking Wallons south of the infamous Belgian language border. So where the Dutch seize every opportunity to replace a perfectly good Dutch word with an improperly used English expression, the Flemish have the most wonderfully original Dutch expressions instead.

 

[Redbacks]

Then why are you so **** at it?

We were all thinking that

 

[Langeveldt]

The official language of Flanders is Dutch. Flemish is not a language, it is basically the local Dutch dialect. Because I'm originally from just north of the border, I can understand Flemish pretty well because it is similar to the Dtuch dialect (Brabants) I grew up speaking. Having said that, West Flemish is impossible to understand, I can honestly say I would understand Russian better than what the good folk from Ghent speak.

What I like about Flemish is that they are very pure in their Dutch; they have to be because it protects their identity from the evil French-speaking Wallons south of the infamous Belgian language border. So where the Dutch seize every opportunity to replace a perfectly good Dutch word with an improperly used English expression, the Flemish have the most wonderfully original Dutch expressions instead.

Meh, it's all just less advanced Afrikaans

 

[Steulen]

Meh, it's all just less advanced Afrikaans

is nie eg nie

Or whatever kind of expression you horse-and-cart folk use over there.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

A historical fact I feel I should point out is that the Belgian Congo wasn't the property of the Belgian state but entirely the private property of the Belgian king whose name escapes me at the moment.

 

[Steulen]

A historical fact I feel I should point out is that the Belgian Congo wasn't the property of the Belgian state but entirely the private property of the Belgian king whose name escapes me at the moment.

Leopold.

AKA ****