I’m dood.
And they say English is bad
Submitted 1 year ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Hi dood, I’m alive
Cagi@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
In Dutch, two o’s make a long o sound. Dode.
lauha@lemmy.one 1 year ago
What is “oo” sound if not long o sound? Sorry, not natives englishian.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Dutch “rood” is pronounced like English “road”.
Dutch “broed” is pronounced like English “brood”.
cinabongo@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
“Look at the sea” in finish (katso merta) means “dick shit” in Italian (cazzo merda).
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean if it’s moist I’m doing something right. Right?
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends. Is there any money involved?
fluckx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am stealing this.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 year ago
That’s not Dutch. Related, Frysian or Afrikaans but not Dutch.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hitler so dood
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Truly one of the doods of all time.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I mean celebrating isnt gonna get you out of a post war collapse. So good job by the dutch?
Aganim@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
I’m not seeing any double-A’s.
I think this might be an AI mockup of faux German.
artvabas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The play was not fair, in Dutch: de plee was niet ver, means the toilet was not far away😏
The2500@thelemmy.club 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Oh wow just like Turkish. Probably little sexism in Indonesia and none in Turkey, right?
kono_throwaway_da@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
It’s Afrikaans, not Dutch. It’s close though. We can understand written Afrikaans.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For non-speakers, it’s kind of like reading Scots as an anglophone. sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 year 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 1 year ago
Funny. If you say the words out loud they’re much easier to understand.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s like reading a Nac Mac Feegle speaking.
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lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
That explains the neutral tone. It’s something important far away.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Hitler dood? Lekker bru!
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No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 1 year ago
Would you translate the bold text below the subtitles?
mononomi@feddit.nl 1 year 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 1 year ago
Obviously, he’s so dood.
rinkink@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Crude translation, trying to keep the words order the same.