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Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:46 am
by 36drew
How did you manage to spell 'ruiters' wrong when you are from that country?
ROFL. I laughed pretty hard at that.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:57 am
by I__CHAOS__I
but it's not spelled wrong
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:54 am
by StrokeyBlofeld
No it's not how it is spelt, but it's still funny.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:57 am
by wicked_assassin
ruiters what is wrong spelled about that word? at least it's an existing word...
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:24 pm
by Kaiser_von_Nuben
Don't know if this is relevant, but in German, "uhlan" is " der Ulan," but "uhlan" is just the anglicized version. I don't know about "ruyter" vs. "ruiter." Maybe in older Dutch "i" replaced "y?"
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:27 pm
by Aaryn_GenD
[quote=""Kaiser_von_Nuben""]Don't know if this is relevant, but in German, "uhlan" is " der Ulan," but "uhlan" is just the anglicized version. I don't know about "ruyter" vs. "ruiter." Maybe in older Dutch "i" replaced "y?"[/quote]
true kaiser, and the plural form of it would be "Ulanen"
i don't think that he spelled "ruyter" wrong by writing ruiter, if that person is dutch, he knows it^^
oh and also the Tschapka-Ulan(on your game versions probably Czapka-Uhlan) comes form the turkish word ?apka which means hat
i guessed it could be like that, looked it up and was right :-)
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:29 am
by huGGy
Still funny, though.