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In article <ant0800420b0EmcX@j3bkjjm.xs4all.nl> "Fam.Borm-Mulder" <j3bkjjm@xs4all.nl> writes:

   In article <4f4tce$k0c@rc1.vub.ac.be>, Antoon Pardon
   <mailto:apardon@rc1.vub.ac.be> wrote:
   > 
   > Wel mijn Archimedes heeft het begeven. De winkel waar ik
   > hen gekocht heb is na een tweetal jaren gestopt met
   > acorn produckten. Aangezien het voor mij om een louter
   > hobby masjine ging, heb ik niet erg uitgekeken naar
   > andere adressen maar nu kan ik niet langer zonder.
   > 


   You have been reading too many comics lately, as even in Dutch
   machine is spelled machine and not masjine. See
   "de Herziene Woordenlijst Nederlandse taal" for
   the official spelling. This list was made for both
   the Dutch and Belgian government,so even the Flemish should
   obey to it.

   Why sent a mailing in Dutch to an international newsgroup ?

[resists temptation to write in Dutch]

And why use English? I could also point out some spelling errors in your
own article, and probably in mine too - like in most articles on the net.
Perhaps Antoon isn't even a native speaker of Dutch, or he hangs on to
some arcane Flemish spelling. Let him. Of course, you're not the first to
post this kind of comment so wie de schoen past, trekke hem aan:

Strangely, I've seen native English speakers pointing out other people's
spelling mistakes as flaws in argumentation. Perhaps they would like to
continue that argument in, say, Norwegian to put them on a more equal
footing with their opponent? Not speaking perfect English does not make
a speaker's argument invalid.

But this post wasn't too bad (see below). What really annoys me is the
kind of article that quotes a whole article just to point out that ``that
really should have been a `[A-Za-z]' because ...''. Please refrain from
this kind of posting. It is usually incredibly uninformative, off-topic
and rather boring too.

So there.

[extremely helpful and friendly answers to original questions snipped]

   Steven

PS No prizes to be won for finding flaws in spelling, grammar or style
in this article. Anyone attempting to do so will be forced to read
Dutch literature out loud, thus ruining their throats.