Because the entire language is a fucking exception
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someguy3@lemmy.ca 4 months agoWhy do the Dutch hate the language?
Firipu@startrek.website 4 months ago
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months 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.
force@lemmy.world 4 months 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
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 4 months ago
TLDR?
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 4 months ago
Lees het gewoon, luie donder. Of heb je de aandachtsspanne van een doperwt?
wafflez@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because it’s Dutch
Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 months 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.