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Uitlanders

29/5/2012

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Word of the day: uitlander

As I can still remember from some letters ago, I had a German word that's used in the English language. Those loanwords are sometimes strange, sometimes normal, sometimes oddly familiar to my own (apparently native) language. The word I'm going to talk about today is originally from the Afrikaans and before that (so really originally) from the Dutch language, and means foreigner or outsider. (uit means out and land means well, just land.)

I could go on and on about the meaning and the effects of being a foreigner or an outsider, but I'm in school now so 
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