[rschiks]

Hi Martijn,
Now there's a statement to start a heated debate :-)

Speaking as a linguist: there is no such thing as official Dutch. There only is an official Dutch spelling agreed between all countries where variants of Dutch are spoken. There are two major variants of Dutch: southern Dutch as spoken in Belgium and northern Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands. Both vary to some degree in usage, syntax and vocabulary.

In my quick review I found a few instances that tended towards southern Dutch usage, without being too obvious, such as 'Weet je zeker dat je het systeem wil uitschakelen' vs. 'Weet je zeker dat je het systeem wilt uitschakelen'. These really are only minor things that some non-linguistically inclined northern speakers may not even notice.

Regards,
Henk

I would notice :-)

Not making this thread a language discussion, but is there not just one official language and the rest are dialects?
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language...etherlands.

The grammar should be of the official language and not of the dialect. The first example you wrote is wrong. It should be 'Weet je zeker dat je het systeem wilt uitschakelen'