2天前

Dutch is not a serious rule

(Screenshot of a social media post, user posting an image of Jar Jar Binks with a speech bubble for the post replied to. Post is from a Dutch politician stating "We hebben een serieus probleem met de politieke ontwikkelingen mbt de dwangwet en ik hoop dat dat de komende dagen kan worden opgelost. ")

Also, who can forget this favorite

(Screenshot of a translator app.
English: spank me daddy.
Dutch: geef me een klap papa)

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Dutch is not a serious rule

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Dutch is not a serious language

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I'm Deutsch and to me Dutch sounds really funny. Even a harmless word like "ontwikkelingen". Not to speak of "Grachten" (said correctly), Pindakaas and Poffertjes. Lekker! I wonder if the opposite applies, too.
BTW, Geert Wilders deserves all the ridicule he gets, and more.
- I lived in The Netherlands in 08-10 with my German boyfriend at the time and this just make me giggle because I completely understand this all these years later lol
- German sounds angry/aggressive to us.
  
  Fair enough. 😥
  
  I disagree. This is a common stereotype, but if you actually listen to Germans talk it feels quite a bit softer
- Moet jij nodig zeggen.
  Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften
  Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän
  Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcxvQI88JRY
  BTW, Geert Wilders deserves all the ridicule he gets, and more.
  Totally agree. Even for a fascist he's a fucking joke.
- Can’t speak for the Netherlands, but here in Belgium the first thing anyone thinks of when you speak German is the war. I know I’m not supposed to mention it…
  That being said, German usually sounds like angry Dutch to us, so I guess we both agree on where we are on the funny-angry spectrum.
  Also, most of your examples are more common in the Netherlands, which are definitely further along the funny axis.
  
  But here in Belgium…
  Forgive my ignorance, isn’t there a large portion of your countrymen that speak German as one of their primary languages?
This guy has been doing stupid hair and spewing far right bullshit for longer than trump.
Pretty sure he didn’t blow bubba though.
- Didn't blow Bubba so far
Dutch = Gungan
I'll never see it any different from now on
More importantly, Geert Wilders is not a serious person.
Why can I read that??
- English and Dutch are cousin languages who are relatively close by Germanic standards, though if you want a real mind fuck listen to or read Frisian. Also the old Runic alphabet for the Lowlands and England are called anglo-frisian runes.
- Because Dutch and English are both Germanic languages "forcibly wooed" by the Pepe Le Pews
- As a Norwegian, I understood all but one word.
  
  Was it "dwangwet"? That's the one word I didn't understand. (Except for maybe mbt which I think is a misspelling of the Dutch term for "with")
- South African here. I got about half,but my Afrikaans (derived from dutch) is not great. )
The difference between grammatical and literal translations is always so funny. Here, let me explain:
Dutch: geef me een klap papa
Norwegian literal: gi meg en klapp, pappa
Nor to English literal: give me a clap, dad
Norwegian situational; smekk meg, far 😏
Nor to English literal: smack me, father 😏
i read somewhere that if you only speak english and want to learn another language, then dutch would be the easiest--makes sense now
- I was told dutch is one of the hardest languages to learn. Lots of meaningless words are often used to pad a sentence which in essence can be left out.
  Zou het misschien een beetje mogelijk zijn om iets te doen?
  Zou het mogelijk zijn om iets te doen?
  Same thing
  Was made aware of this by a dutch teacher and never looked the same at how we construct sentences. The words are added for a perceived kindness, but confuse non native speakers.
  
  Seems like bullshit. If they don't have much meaning, you can essentially ignore them. No way that's harder than learning Chinese or most other non-European languages for native English speakers.
- The easiest would probably be Frisian. Not that useful, though. Though learning Dutch isn't that useful, either, if you already speak English - most people in the Netherlands can speak English, and they have a lot more practice with it than someone who starts learning Dutch on a whim.
  
  It would be necessary if you wanted a job in the Netherlands, no?
Give me a clap Pappa!
Wait. How are the Dutch not Gungan again?

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