Dutch

[wellinghall]

Can anyone here write Dutch? I'm trying to send an email to a Dutch theatre about a booking, and they keep ignoring me; and I don't know whether this is because they can't understand my English, or because they ignore all emails on principle.

Comments

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

You might want to consider running what you've written in English through babel fish.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
U zou kunnen willen nadenken lopend welke you' ve die in het Engels door babelfish wordt geschreven.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'll do that if necessary; but given the, er, interesting results I've had when putting foreign language posts through Babel Fish, I'm saving it for a last resort.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

If the language is kept simple enough it should do OK. The problem with putting foreign language posts through is that they are probably use more complex language and terms than it can realistically cope with. But if you are writing it yourself you can keep everything very simple. Of course the acid test is to re-translate the results back into English. Doing that with my comment above shows that it wasn't simple enough for it. :-(