Dutch is not a serious language
from FenrirIII@lemmy.world to starwarsmemes@lemmy.world on 01 Dec 2025 01:57
https://lemmy.world/post/39553838
from FenrirIII@lemmy.world to starwarsmemes@lemmy.world on 01 Dec 2025 01:57
https://lemmy.world/post/39553838
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/39532173
(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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Does indeed often sound horrible. Is, however, quite comprehensive.
You take that back, my throat scraping is lovely!
To each their own ^^
I like Dutch
Dankuwel!
Dutch Vander is a J. K. Rowling type of name for a character
I’m a little surprised how much of that knowing Danish allows me to reasonably interpret when reading it. It’s just a pity I made this marvelous discovery trying to read something written by fucking Geert Wilders.
It’s Dutch secret bathroom knowledge, when we shitting and reading the labels on the packaging, discovering we understand written Danish.
Mind. Blown.
Written Danish is easy, like all Nordics. Spoken though, not a chance.
Except Finnish, perkele!
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct!
Most people incorrectly think that Finland is part of Scandinavia. However, Finland is part of the Nordic countries!
And still manages to have a more consistent spelling than English.
I believe that applies to literally every language other than English.
Even French.
EauxK Buddy
EauhKhaits is the best I can do
You can’t really have an X here, it would get pronounced. But you can have an H, H is always nice and silent. Unless there’s a C before, then it changes how the C is pronounced.
Dellow Felegates:
I’m german, never learned dutch and the only part I couldn’t make sense of is “mbt de dwangwet”.
That being said, Geert Wilders is a racist cunt and right wing populist.
He waa kicked out of Slitherin.
Mbt = "met betrekking tot", basically means regarding. Dwangwet translates to Zwangsgesetz in German.
Thanks, though that doesn’t help that much. I don’t think we have these kind of laws in Germany (or I have never heard of that, though a quick internet search only shows laws about when police is allowed to force something).
I had to look it up, but the "dwangwet" is a name the right gave to the "spreidingswet", a law meant to force municipalities to provide shelter to asylum seekers. It's far right framing, they wanted to (and succeeded) block this law from passing. Goal of the block is according to them something aking to "muh freedoms", if you ask me it was meant to force problems with said asylum seekers. These problems didn't materialize, with the ultimate effect of Geert Wilders' PVV party leaving the coalition.
This is a very condensed version of two years of political scheming, so there's a lot more to be said than this.
Ah, so wrt (with regards to)!
I got this much:
So like 85% understandable 😁
Knowing only English, I think I got about 25% of that
I can’t even understand it and yet it still manages to make me sick, like strawberry Quick. Thanks Lucas!
Who’s opgelost?
This made me think of swedish chef
Am I racist?