https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=300184#c13
--- Comment #13 from Luc Verhaegen 2007-08-16 06:40:03 MST ---
As a native dutch speaker, i'm sorry that i have to inform you that we don't
use the word wildebeest at all. It's a weird spelling for "wild beast", nothing
more.
The wildebeest, in dutch, is actually called "Gnoe".
It is the English preferred spelling which is Wildebeest, which just got
bastardised into gnu. Cheap entertainment shows are so bad for language purity.
Also, there is no reason to tread on nationalistic toes here as well. There are
about 6million belgians which also have dutch as their mother tongue. This
issue is hot enough politically that we want to keep nationalism out of this.
We don't want the Netherlands and Belgium falling out with eachother over the
wildebeest versus gnu issue, because then other countries will chime in. This
is the future of the european union that could be endangered here. It could
even turn into the united kingdom versus the united states, and then, before
you know it, we could have ourselves another cold war and a potential nuclear
holocaust.
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