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Flemish: "dinges"/"dingske"

The way I understand "hinterland" is "the geographical area where goods from the harbour can easily be transported to". This can be over water (river or canals), but also by train …

http://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live-shipping-map-english-... :-)

"The worldken of this behaving, in all its manifold ways, is called minglingken ." Funny, the Dutch word for chemistry is "scheikunde", which would be more like "breakupken" ("sche…

Ghent (Belgium) has also done this for several years already. Among others, my kids' school uses this for local activities such as going to one of the city parks (a weekly activity…

> Leopold II's atrocities get very little attention in Belgium compared to Nazism. That is true. I'm Belgian; I can't remember having heard about this e.g. in history classes; it's…

The park was called after Leopold I, the first king of Belgium, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Belgium. This was in 1877, a decade before the Congo atrocities. (Source: htt…

Doing. I pick a project that interests me at some point; currently "I'd like to have an internet music player that sits on my cupboard and doesn't require my tablet". Then: * decid…

My kids (4 and 6) go to bed between 7 and 8PM (target = 7:30). They have to get up at 6:30 AM so we can get them ready for school without too much of a rush, so they go to bed earl…

> [...] and every time there is a minor breakthrough I feel like throwing a party Yes! It's become a deliberate strategy of mine to set the subgoal complexity in my personal projec…

I move daily between different environments (OS X, Windows, Linux in VMs and on Raspberry Pi) and languages (C, Python, shell scripts). Switching between different editors on all p…

As corrosion sets in, the problem becomes bigger and bigger. http://www.euronews.com/2014/02/21/troubled-waters-the-hidde...

This fits within the scientific field of evolutionary linguistics ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_linguistics ).

English has these words that your language does not, because it borrowed heavily from several other languages in the past. Having only one language would kill off that source for d…

The Convair was the example of piston tech taken too far.

The same issue comes up with classic cars. Is a car which has seen many/most of its parts replaced (including chassis members, body panels,...), still the same car?

Flemish here: I write 8 by starting in the mid-point, then to top left, around via top right to bottom left, around to bottom right and then back to the middle. So it's horizontall…

I'm in Belgium, with two kids. When they were both in daycare (4 days a week), we paid between 500-650 euros per month, depending on the number of workdays in the month. We were pa…

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jamais_Contente

A muffler restricts the exhaust and will lead to decreased power from the engine, even for properly tuned engines. Removing the muffler will remove the restriction in the exhaust a…

Belgian perspective: every bakery has their own cutting machine, and when you buy a bread, it is cut just before it is wrapped. If you tell the baker beforehand that you prefer it …

We have a thermostat in our house that has a weekly programme: it turns the heat on in the morning, then off at 7:30 when everyone is at work/school, back on at 16:30 so that the h…

The intention is noble. However, chances are that the son looks up to his father, thinks his father's life is normal and how it should be, and will (unconsciously) copy it. If that…

We have 2 toddlers; double-income household. We live at the edge of a small city center in Belgium. Originally, we both worked full time, lived in a small house, and had income to …