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• someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why do the Dutch hate the language?

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a stupid language making no sense at all. Weird grammer. Plus, it has weird sounds. Like the R and G, and flattened vowels. Whenever our prime-minister speaks English, it’s a massive shame factor for any Dutch person. Oh and not just the current bozo, the past several as well. Like if it’s mandatory to speak horrible English to become prime-minister or something. French accent? Super sexy. Irish? Oeh yeah. German? So sophisticated, or a female with soft German, rrrrrrrr. Italian? Spanish? Greek? Hell yeah. Norwegian, Danish? So bad ass viking. Swedish? Sure. Even Sud Afrikaans English accent is sexy AF. That language even originates from Dutch!

    But Dutch itself? Boner gone, give me a paper bag with 2 holes in it and fast!

    It’s not without reason English officially isn’t considered a foreign language in the Netherlands anymore. There are even talks about adapting it as a second national language, as the general knowledge of English is of a certain level, it’s getting close to Dutch. The only people in the Netherlands who are unable to speak English are a few boomers and some who haven’t read any book besides the Bible.

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  • Firipu@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because the entire language is a fucking exception

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  • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The grammar rules make no sense and sometimes have more exceptions than cases it applies to.

    I’m married to a foreigner and regularly get stuck trying to explain why a sentence is the way it is.

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    • force@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The grammar rules make no sense and sometimes have more exceptions than cases it applies to.

      said the native speakers of like half the languages on this planet

      dutch grammar is about as regular as most west germanic languages (germanic grammar tends to be relatively irregular compared to the norm though) but something that makes it “easier” than a language like German is the total lack of cases (in the modern standard) and only 2 grammatical genders.

      althoughhh dutch, and english, do have extremely opaque orthographies in terms of reading, trying to figure out the pronunciation of a word based on the spelling is pretty much useless most of the time, which isn’t super common among writing systems

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      • cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        TLDR?

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  • wafflez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because it’s Dutch

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because it’s bog German?!

    On a more serious note, I’ve learned both Dutch and German as foreign languages and I prefer the former to the latter.

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• cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Een probleem?!

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