Re: Konvention report

[Peter Byrne Manchester <PMANCHESTER@ccmail.sunysb.edu>]

Marcel Rijs <100276.2176@CompuServe.COM> writes,

> Peter, you're breaking my heart. ...

In my Convention Report, I wrote the name of the amusement park where the TKI 
and other `Dutch TV' videos were made from insufficiently attentive memory.  
I will not compound the offense by doing it again, even in confession.

> The park where those clips were filmed is called "De Efteling".
> Please, write it down, memorize it, delete wrong spellings in books
> like the Visual Documentary (which is otherwise a pretty good
> publication) and remember that name. Need I remind you this park is
> the world's best amusement park in the world, even knocking
> Disney World (...that's the right spelling, right?) off that top spot.

No:  its Tisz-(`t' as in Tao) knea (`ea' as in leap), Tizsknea World.  But 
ok, point taken.  Definite article is `de' (NOT German `die'), ending is 
`ing' (NOT German `-ung').

De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling
De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling
De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling
De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling
De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling
De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling  De Efteling

I guess that's not very impressive penance on the computer, is it?

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> I know it's a petty thing, but this is one of those fact-ettes that
> can prove Love-Hounds/Gaffa's worldwideness.  And hey, a _little_ > 
> chauvinism on an international forum should be possible, right?

Right.

> Oh, and another thing: the park is situated in Kaatsheuvel, not
> Amsterdam. Not even "near" Amsterdam.

I knew that; that much registered from your last effort to get this straight. 
BTW, what does `De Efteling' mean--or is it just a place name?

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