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Zij zijn niet gek (They aren't crazy)

  • 1.  Zij zijn niet gek (They aren't crazy)

    Posted 01-04-2000 05:47
    Mg-Ed-Dv-ers,
    In reading Beate's Dutch comments to us, I contemplate how new technologies
    are making the world including business more and more a global village. If
    we received Beate's communication in the course of our business activities,
    nowadays we could go to a site such as:
    http://www.lingotalk.com/languages/dutch.html
    and purchase software to automatically translate them into 26 languages
    including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek,
    Russian, Czech, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian,
    Dutch, Turkish, Serbo-Croat, Polish, Slovakian, Hungarian, Bulgarian,
    Romanian, Estonian, Thai, and/or Indonesian.
    GADZOOKS!
    Of course, any one with four first names is welcome to post in Dutch to
    Mg-Ed-Dv. (New York where I work was a Dutch colony originally so I'm
    partial towards Holland-based folks). Hmmmmmmmm. Is there a tie-in to our
    Pennsylvania Dutch/Amish comments in recent threads? Perhaps. The Amish
    are reluctant to the use of new technologies that weaken
    community-mindedness and teamwork--one's that foster jealousy and gossip. I
    think that Mg-Ed-Dv should be a place where we go to help our global
    management education/development neighbors by sharing are
    teaching/developing learning and resources. Posting of the urls of web
    resources that you leverage in your courses will help us all to build our
    barns (syllabi?) better.
    Hmmmmmmmm. Some of you non-USAers might have wondered who the Amish are
    etc. Links explaining the Amish are:
    http://www.loyola.edu/dept/philosophy/techne/sharp.html
    http://www.800padutch.com/amish.html
    http://www.800padutch.com/atafaq.html

    Oh, by the bye, Beate, please add a "Heeft u begrepen wat ik in het
    Nederlands zei? (Have you understood what I said in Dutch?) to future such
    postings to Mg-Ed-Dv.

    Cybercollegially,
    Charlie Wankel
    mg-ed-dv listmaster
    wankelc@stjohns.edu

    -----Original Message-----
    Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 2:42 PM
    To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU

    Hoeb,

    Iets voor jou?
    Beate.
    Ik ben er morgen toch.
    Nu de post aan het doen want Jan Kees en ik moeten nog door het voorstel
    heen.
    Daar gaat mijn Brabantse thuiswerkweek.

    Beate.

    Dr. Beatrice Isabella Johanna Maria (B.I.J.M.) van der Heijden,
    Assistant Professor
    University of Twente/Faculty of Technology and Management/Department HRM
    P.O.Box 217
    7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
    Telephone:+31-53-4894227, Fax: +31-53-4892159
    Mobile telephone: +31-6-53796507 Home: +31-73-5324702
    E-mail: B.I.J.M.vanderHeijden@sms.utwente.nl