Dutch ship named after a place ?

[danuslave]

Ik kan geen nederlands

online translator gives

I can not Dutch

How about

Ik kan niet spreken Nederlands

We could play this game for days   

Linda

PS Ik kan ook niet Nederlands spreken

[KGarrad]

Ik kan niet spreken Nederlands

We could play this game for days   

Linda

PS Ik kan ook niet Nederlands spreken

Better would be Ik spreken geen Nederlands!

 

[HughC]

My brother recently returned from a hiking holiday in Italy, armed with this gem:

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The hill of the mountain pen is situated to 800 meters altitude, few below the peak of the homonym mountain that has a height of 982 meters on the level of the sea. On the hill, in 1971 you/he/she has been installed a cross in iron from a group of impassioned of the mountains.  This place offers a splendid panoramic sight on the valley.  A lot of local associations organize outside you every year parties and lunches.
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And you still regard the Google traducer as the highest authority??

Some people just enjoy making fools of themselves ...

[KGarrad]

And you still regard the Google traducer as the highest authority??

Some people just enjoy making fools of themselves ...

I don't often use Google Translator for Dutch - as I live in The Netherlands, it's easy enough (if I don't know myself) to ask genuine Dutch people in the office, or bar.

[JMVH]

There is no possible way you can find logic in translating Hoogcarspel to English, as you can't with most given names.

About Hoogcarspel: The village still exists as 'Hoogkarspel' and the name means that it is a village with a church (in old Dutch: kerspel) which lies on a higher spot in the landscape. Due to the floods many villages (or in medieval times: strongholds) were built on a so called 'terp' which is nothing more than an artificial dwelling hill to keep the feet dry. Hoogkarspel was built on a high point of a natural 'sandback', however.

Schoonkop, if you badly need a literal translation the best choice is 'Fair Head'
In old Dutch (or modern day Flemish) 'schoon' means nice, beautiful or fair, if you please. I do not know the origin of why they named the ship Schoonkop. But a 'kop' or 'schuimkop' is also a word we use for whitecaps, like when a wave is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and it appears white on top; that's a 'schuimkop'.

So far for the Dutch class
Hope it was of any use.

[HughC]

Dank je wel, JMVH!

Incidentally, Capt. Fabian's letters to the Admiralty survive, and his spelling seems to have been rather better than that of the newspaper reports at the time.