Originally Posted by
pineapple stu
Not really. Your point was that it (whatever "it" is) was "all in the one language". I (and Eminence Grise) just wanted to counter that lazy assertion.
Wiki says that 25% of Holland isn't Dutch - ok, a lot of them are going to be Belgian/German/Luxembourgish, but still, a lot of them would not have Dutch as their first language. It'd arguably be more noticeable there than here because Dutch is such a relatively obscure language compared to English. I would say there's a sizeable portion with Arabic as their first language for example.