I’m dood.
And they say English is bad
Submitted 5 months ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wat nou?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Pussycat.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Hi dood, I’m alive
Cagi@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
In Dutch, two o’s make a long o sound. Dode.
lauha@lemmy.one 5 months ago
What is “oo” sound if not long o sound? Sorry, not natives englishian.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Dutch “rood” is pronounced like English “road”.
Dutch “broed” is pronounced like English “brood”.
cinabongo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Similarly, if a Dutch person ever asks you to “kiss my moist cunt” or (kies mijn mooiste kant), don’t take offence.
norimee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Look at the sea” in finish (katso merta) means “dick shit” in Italian (cazzo merda).
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean if it’s moist I’m doing something right. Right?
GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Depends. Is there any money involved?
fluckx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am stealing this.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 5 months ago
That’s not Dutch. Related, Frysian or Afrikaans but not Dutch.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hitler so dood
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Truly one of the doods of all time.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I mean celebrating isnt gonna get you out of a post war collapse. So good job by the dutch?
Aganim@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So good job by the dutch? Yes, if this was Dutch. It isn’t though, looks like Afrikaans to me.
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I’m not seeing any double-A’s.
I think this might be an AI mockup of faux German.
artvabas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The play was not fair, in Dutch: de plee was niet ver, means the toilet was not far away😏
The2500@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
Who is saying English is bad? You save yourself so much trouble not having to like genderize all the words.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
I offer you Indonesian, which has a word for “he/she/they/it” (dia) but no words for “he” or “she”. Indonesian has words for older sibling (kakak) and younger sibling (adik) but it’s rare to specify the sibling’s gender. It ever has rude slang for “primary reproductive organ” (titis, among many others) without specifying wether it concerns a vagina or penis. TL;DR Indonesia is based.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Oh wow just like Turkish. Probably little sexism in Indonesia and none in Turkey, right?
kono_throwaway_da@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
On top of that the grammar is far more regular than whatever bullshit the European languages have. The ber- prefix is always ber-. If you are talking about the past you say sudah instead of juggling with the verbs. No sing-sang-sung do-did-done and all that irregular stuff.
pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Gender and cases allow you to write much more complex sentences, and make long and complex sentences easy to understand.
kono_throwaway_da@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I mean this is subjective. Asian languages let you play with words freely. When you don’t need agreement of verbs and subjects and nouns, you get to make a lot of puns and other kinds of wordplay. See Malay pantuns.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
It’s Afrikaans, not Dutch. It’s close though. We can understand written Afrikaans.
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For non-speakers, it’s kind of like reading Scots as an anglophone. sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 months 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…
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Funny. If you say the words out loud they’re much easier to understand.
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s like reading a Nac Mac Feegle speaking.
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lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
That explains the neutral tone. It’s something important far away.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
FreeFacts@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Hitler dood? Lekker bru!
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No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 5 months ago
Would you translate the bold text below the subtitles?
mononomi@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Alright this is what I understand as a dutchie
The sentence structure is pretty confusing to me and I don’t know some words
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Obviously, he’s so dood.
rinkink@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Crude translation, trying to keep the words order the same.