To all the followers of the blog, to anyone who has been supportive of Frank or us in the last months and especially after his untimely death we want to say thanks from the bottom of our hearts. In the week after his passing we received so much warmth, stories, care and love, hardly describable. To us it was a very precious and valuable week and it was so good to have Frank at home where so many of his friends could visit him. And all the help, stories and info shared in that week led to a beautiful goodbye ceremony on a beautiful sunny autumn day. For those of you who could not attend, or those of you who wish to reread the funeral speeches, we publice them here (in dutch and english) with some pictures in grateful memory of, and tributed to Frank.We will miss him dearly, thanks for being with him and with us, one way or another,
On behalf of my family and his closest friends, Esther
Foto's Frank
dinsdag 28 juni 2011
Taking srand
With fysiotherapy I am cobentrating on stsbdnbg up, and it's working (wwith plinbtoun my keft leg.) Huzzah!! "Stand to attention, you horribe man! Tight, I'llcontinue yo try stabding in the day s to come.
Rense: Considering Mark Twain I guess that Frank is improving English writing.
Quote Mark Twain: For example, in Year 1 that useless letter ‘c’ would be dropped to be replased either by ‘k’ or ‘s’, and likewise ‘x’ would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which ‘c’ would be retained would be the ‘ch’ formation, which will be dealt with later.
Year 2 might reform ‘w’ spelling, so that ‘which’ and ‘one’ would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish ‘y’ replasing it with ‘i’ and Iear 4 might fiks the ‘g/j’ anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez ‘c’, ‘y’ and ‘x’ — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais ‘ch’, ‘sh’, and ‘th’ rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Walter: My grandmother types with one finger, and she seems to manage it. I am impressed that she types emails at all. I believe she started to write an email to me today, so it should be ready some time next month.
That´s amazing. once again, I congratulate you!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenAny chance of typing lessons next? ;) You are getting a little hard to understand with all these strangely spelled words.
Rense: Considering Mark Twain I guess that Frank is improving English writing.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenQuote Mark Twain:
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter ‘c’ would be dropped to be replased either by ‘k’ or ‘s’, and likewise ‘x’ would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which ‘c’ would be retained would be the ‘ch’ formation, which will be dealt with later.
Year 2 might reform ‘w’ spelling, so that ‘which’ and ‘one’ would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish ‘y’ replasing it with ‘i’ and Iear 4 might fiks the ‘g/j’ anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez ‘c’, ‘y’ and ‘x’ — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais ‘ch’, ‘sh’, and ‘th’ rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Typen met een hand is lastig hoor. Het zou natuurlijk wel helpen als er voor het plaatsen enige correctie plaats zou vinden (grijns)
BeantwoordenVerwijderenWalter
Fantastic comment andre!!! Btw, notice franks neglect just take the letter next to the wrong one and then you can read what he means,
BeantwoordenVerwijderenEshter
Walter:
BeantwoordenVerwijderenMy grandmother types with one finger, and she seems to manage it. I am impressed that she types emails at all. I believe she started to write an email to me today, so it should be ready some time next month.