When I was a kid our family went on vacation to the US. Everyone kept asking if I was Dutch, which I thought was German (Deutsch).
So I kept correcting them, saying I was Netherlandisch :)
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nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Netherlands = Dutch
thelsim@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
eatthecake@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Deutsch is Pennsylvania Dutch, which is German
CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you mean that Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect of German and that Dutch and Deutsch share a common origin, then that is true.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Also, in Deutschland, the descendents of the Alemmani are called Germans for some awful reason.
drbluefall@toast.ooo 5 months ago
So I take it that’s why it’s Allemagne?
Draghetta@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The German people, as a people, started as the unification of the Germanic tribes. The unified tribe called itself the tribe of all men, Alle Männer in modern German. The history of those times is narrated by romans and Greeks so we have a romanised version of that name, alamanni.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Aha! Hence, the French “Allemand(e)” for “German”.
TIL. Pretty neat!