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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Godric@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It’s Afrikaans, not Dutch. It’s close though. We can understand written Afrikaans.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        It’s like reading a Nac Mac Feegle speaking.

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • FreeFacts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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    • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s Afrikaans, not Dutch.

      Hitler dood? Lekker bru!

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    • No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Would you translate the bold text below the subtitles?

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      • mononomi@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Obviously, he’s so dood.

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      • rinkink@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m dood.

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    • thisNotMyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Wat nou?

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Pussycat.

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    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Hi dood, I’m alive

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  • Cagi@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    In Dutch, two o’s make a long o sound. Dode.

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    • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      What is “oo” sound if not long o sound? Sorry, not natives englishian.

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      • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Dutch “rood” is pronounced like English “road”.

        Dutch “broed” is pronounced like English “brood”.

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  • cinabongo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Similarly, if a Dutch person ever asks you to “kiss my moist cunt” or (kies mijn mooiste kant), don’t take offence.

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    • norimee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “Look at the sea” in finish (katso merta) means “dick shit” in Italian (cazzo merda).

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    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I mean if it’s moist I’m doing something right. Right?

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      • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Depends. Is there any money involved?

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    • fluckx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I am stealing this.

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  • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That’s not Dutch. Related, Frysian or Afrikaans but not Dutch.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Hitler so dood

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  • SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Truly one of the doods of all time.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I mean celebrating isnt gonna get you out of a post war collapse. So good job by the dutch?

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    • Aganim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      So good job by the dutch? Yes, if this was Dutch. It isn’t though, looks like Afrikaans to me.

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      • dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I’m not seeing any double-A’s.

        I think this might be an AI mockup of faux German.

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  • artvabas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The play was not fair, in Dutch: de plee was niet ver, means the toilet was not far away😏

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  • The2500@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Who is saying English is bad? You save yourself so much trouble not having to like genderize all the words.

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    • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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      • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Oh wow just like Turkish. Probably little sexism in Indonesia and none in Turkey, right?

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      • kono_throwaway_da@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Gender and cases allow you to write much more complex sentences, and make long and complex sentences easy to understand.

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      • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I require elaboration.

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      • kono_throwaway_da@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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