Comment on And they say English is bad

Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  For non-speakers, it’s kind of like reading Scots as an anglophone. sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Did they ever fix the issue that an American teen used a hilariously bad interpretation of the Scots language to write thousands of articles on the Scots wiki?

    slate.com/…/scots-wikipedia-language-american-tee…

    old.reddit.com/…/ive_discovered_that_almost_every…

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    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Only partially, unfortunately. There aren’t a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now.

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  • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Funny. If you say the words out loud they’re much easier to understand.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s like reading a Nac Mac Feegle speaking.

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That explains the neutral tone. It’s something important far away.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also that newspaper is called “The Fatherland”.

    It’s a pretty good hint of where they stand in the whole Left-Right political spectrum.

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Which is super weird in it self. I mean, do South African white people call their colonist nation their “Fatherland”?

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      • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        FYI- South Africa is kind of unique in that it was settled by a ruling class as opposed to the normal dregs like most other places.

        The maintained their close relationship to home and superior status to their slaves/servants much longer than other places.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        “mother country” or “motherland” is pretty common for descendants of European colonists/emigrees. I know Germans call it “fatherland” instead, probably the Dutch too

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      • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I think they call it the Volkstaat

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  • FreeFacts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well, the Union of South Africa were participants in the war against Germany, so that’s still a bit weird. Don’t know about the affiliation of the magazine in question, but the support for joining the allies wasn’t clear cut, but only a narrow majority among the ruling white class.

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    • lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There was a strong pro-Nazi contingent amongst (mainly) Afrikaans-speaking South Africans. That’s not to say by any stretch that Afrikaners were mostly pro-Nazi, though. Jan Smuts was an Afrikaner and was both a Field Marshal in the South African defence forces and the prime minister during WW2 - he wasn’t exactly pro-British (he fought against them in the second Boer war), but he was very strongly anti-Nazi.

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    • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, just like Americans they think it’s their country and the original inhabitants have no place in their country.

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• Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s Afrikaans, not Dutch.

  Hitler dood? Lekker bru!

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• No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Would you translate the bold text below the subtitles?

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  • mononomi@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Alright this is what I understand as a dutchie

    Hitler is dead and Dönitz is now the leader in Germany, a British newspaper writes today: “Never before in history has the perspective of peace been so ?? made a possibility of the long war”

    The sentence structure is pretty confusing to me and I don’t know some words

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    • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thanks you beat me to it.

      Yeah it’s something like how abrupt the change of prospect is from an extended war to peace.

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  • Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Obviously, he’s so dood.

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  • rinkink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Crude translation, trying to keep the words order the same.

    Hitler’s death and Dönitz 's acceptance of rule in Germany lead a British paper to write: “Never before in the history has the prospect of peace so suddenly changed to the possibility of a protracted war.”

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