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