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ophone
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All roads lead to.... nope, not Rome, but Brussels!
As a special for our Belgian Jamily members, here a picture a friend posted on facebook:
And after informations from an old school mate, this road sign isn't a fake, like some kind of photo editing.
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Cosmic Girl
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 18:43 |
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Great Pix ophone hahahahahaha |
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caroli
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 19:10 |
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Well...the impressive there is the fact that Brussels is written in two different ways... fantastic! 
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ophone
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 19:41 |
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As you might know, in Belgium there are mainly 3 linguistic regions.
The biggest, the Flemish part, where people speak Flemish, some kind of Dutch dialect.
The second, the Waloon part, where people speak French or even French dialects.
The third, much smaller than the 2 first parts, the region people in Northern Luxembourg call New-Belgium, where people speak German or German dialects.
(In fact, there is even a fourth, very small, called "Areler Land" which means the city of Arlon and its "outskirts", where people (used to) speak Luxembourgish.)
Well, Brussel is the Dutch/Flemish name of Brussels and Bruxelles is the French one.
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russky
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Júlia*
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Jay_F
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 13:26 |
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lol i really love that picture, hilarious!! and nicely explained André xD 
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caroli
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| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 14:27 |
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I knew it (not so well but still) but I found hilarious that they would write the name down in two different languages...
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peggy
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Costa Grande
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 15:12 |
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| caroli wrote: |
| I knew it (not so well but still) but I found hilarious that they would write the name down in two different languages... |
It's not such a weird thing, it happens in any bilingual country or nearby the border of two different countries (i.e. switzerland, northern italy etc). The funny thing here is that this sign is quite partial... it points a shortcut only to the dutch-speaking folks! 
may i forward it to failblog? |
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ophone
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 13:24 |
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Sure!
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Jamiroca
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| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 13:48 |
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How long was I in that country and did i ever see that city?
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