Comment on Learning Japanese

• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re clearly thinking of the Dutch.

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  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They can speak, they just act like they can’t in front of foreigners. I am learning “Dutch” and am 100% convinced this whole language is a hoax

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• agavaa@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cause they can’t!1!

  But for real, for those who are curious: the border between Germany and Poland is effectively the border between western and eastern Europe. So to Slav people Germans lived right over there, and yet spoke something incomprehensible; so we called them “mute” (in Poland at least). If I can’t understand you you are mute to me, basically. And the word for “Germans” is the same as for “Germany”, so we call the country itself mutes 😅

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nemecko
  Nemý

  Never realized that.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Still better than Rakousko/Rakúsko. Czech and Slovak are the only languages where the word for Austria does not originate from “Österreich” but fron Ratgoz, a single proto-Austrian guy’s name.

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah right? When it hit me I was like hmmm

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