DonAntonioMagino

@DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not read the article, but checking this, it’s actually in the Dutch version as well… Bunch of fuckers.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what you mean here. As far as spelling goes, Dutch is far more consistent than English.

  You’re mentioning some none-standard Dutch which is often perceived as incorrect (and it is indeed according to the rules of the standard language norm). Yet, if you were correct in your claim that ‘groter als jij’ was ‘never proper Dutch and sound[s] wrong to every native Dutch speaker’, no native Dutch speaker would ever use ‘groter als jij’. This simply isn’t the case: native Dutch speakers often do this, and have been doing it at least since the seventeenth century (eg. this quote from 1670: ‘Zy [de vrucht ”Peci”] is niet veel groter als een kastanie …, vol sap en aengenaem van smaek: herder dan een gemeine appel, en een weinig zuurachtig,’ - ‘It [the fruit “Peci”] is not much bigger than a chestnut …, full of juice and pleasantly tasting: harder than a common apple, and a bit sourish,’).

  Sorry to have gone so off-topic here, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The plural -s in Dutch only gets an apostrophe if the stem word ends on an open vowel. So it’s ‘Maria’s huis’ but ‘Piets boek’. So even in Dutch this’d be incorrect ;)