Helpful to remember ''Een goed begin is het halve werk.'': A good start is half the work. ''Roei met de riemen die je hebt.'': Row with the oars you've got, make do with what's available. ''hutspot (sometimes known as huts''e''pot)'': Mulligan stew, perhaps a good synonym for SpaghettiCode ? ''Praten is zilver, zwijgen is goud'': Talk is silver, silence is golden (I think GermanLanguage has this too. [''Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold.'']) ''Een schip op het strand is een baken in zee'': A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea. (As quoted by FredBrooks in TheMythicalManMonth.) ''Doe maar gewoon, dan doe je al gek genoeg'': Just act normally, that's crazy enough. ''Laat hem een toontje lager zingen'': Take him down a peg. ---- For those who read TerryPratchett there is something endearing about a language that has the word "ook". ''But LispLanguage had "ook" first...'' What is "ook" in the LispLanguage? And FWIW, I doubt LispLanguage predates the DutchLanguage. ---- CategoryNaturalLanguage