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I guess there's a reason everyone I met in the Netherlands just speak English like it's their first language. That, and all the British tourists that land on their shores every weekend.
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1395397915800129541?s=20
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The MSJ posted:I guess there's a reason everyone I met in the Netherlands just speak English like it's their first language. That, and all the British tourists that land on their shores every weekend.
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AtraMorS posted:If I remember my English language history, English and Dutch are ridiculously closely related. Again iirc, in part of the Netherlands they speak Frisian, which is even closer to English, and it's possible to construct modern sentences that are identical in pronunciation and meaning in both Frisian and English. Dutch and English share a lot of words, but not enough to make them understandable to a non-speaker in an average sentence. Plus the grammar is backwards (more German I guess).
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Here's a snippet of Dutch that I picked up on Twitter:quote:Wanneer we ooit geconfronteerd worden met een salsapandemie, ga ik met veel plezier luisteren naar wat jij als dansleraar te zeggen hebt. Echter, op dit moment geef ik geen flying gently caress om wat jij uitkraamt, en Nederland zou dat best ook niet doen. And the translation: quote:If we are ever faced with a salsa pandemic, I will be happy to listen to what you as a dance teacher have to say. However, right now I don't give a flying gently caress about what you spout, and the Netherlands wouldn't do that either.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34&t=1s And also: https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1395770163740520451
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jojoinnit posted:Dutch and English share a lot of words, but not enough to make them understandable to a non-speaker in an average sentence. Plus the grammar is backwards (more German I guess). ultrafilter posted:Here's a snippet of Dutch that I picked up on Twitter: English: "Butter, bread, and green cheese is good English and good Frise" Frisian: "Bûter, brea, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk." The written spelling looks very different to an English speaker, and I probably overstepped by saying the pronunciation was identical (it's very close but not an exact match), but it's still clear even without pronunciation or a translating dictionary that those are the same sentence. The only halting point is "tsiis" until you remember that English spellings use a T with CH sounds all the time ("catch," "pitch," etc.), just not usually at the beginning of words. Of course, it's also a forced sentence that no one uses outside of this exact context, and an American accent is going to make those sentences sound farther apart. Edit: anyway, this is the Onion thread. New Initiative Helps Young Girls Gain Confidence By Teaching Them To Melt Human Beings With Sonic Mind Blasts
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if you speak german & english, dutch/flemish are super weird because you basically understand 90% of the words correctly when you read them, but it takes quite a while to understand more than 20% of the words when hearing them spoken this is a pretty good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WnMcyt3IG8
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https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/1395405202593746948
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1396911408617558019
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AtraMorS posted:If I remember my English language history, English and Dutch are ridiculously closely related. Again iirc, in part of the Netherlands they speak Frisian, which is even closer to English, and it's possible to construct modern sentences that are identical in pronunciation and meaning in both Frisian and English. AtraMorS posted:If I remember my English language history, English and Dutch are ridiculously closely related. Again iirc, in part of the Netherlands they speak Frisian, which is even closer to English, and it's possible to construct modern sentences that are identical in pronunciation and meaning in both Frisian and English. Back in the before times, when we were allowed to do things like "Have cons" or "Pack 150 loving nerds together in the same room", I ran a panel of cartoon openers from around the world. and that was a pretty standard inclusion. It sounds just enough like english that if you didn't know either, you could convince yourself it was.
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https://twitter.com/theonion/status/588771872365510656?lang=en
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It really is a shame that the RSC concept never took off. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/2001-toyota-rsc-concept/
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1401939563044642822
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1402286320714764291
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1402683183192231937
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Man Credits Great Kissing Skills To Growing Up With Lots Of Sisters
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Earth Successfully Uninstalls McAfee Too soon?
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Eh.
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https://www.theonion.com/first-transgender-athlete-to-compete-in-olympics-1847160526 The Onion is the one only news source I trust to have an unproblematic take on this.
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It's never too soon. https://www.theonion.com/hijackers-surprised-to-find-selves-in-hell-1819566162
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Ragnar34 posted:https://www.theonion.com/first-transgender-athlete-to-compete-in-olympics-1847160526 Ooo, a rare instance of a portrait outside of their rotating stock photos!
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1410611464130351104
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Huh, the Onion broke the story for me and it didn't make the cut in my news feeds at all. Kind of perfect.
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1411003053369614337?s=19
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Uh huh.
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Dream Crushed Over Trivial Bullshit Represents Nation Better Than Gold Medal Ever Could
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1412826291385122823
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https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/1420398644767952901 https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1420481706054885379 https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1420555930916229122
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Jesus lol
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https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/1420770482744352776
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1422249594650603521
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1425147465133613056
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That’s sick and unnatural. Dogs have like eight teats.
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1427316694343725063
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 15:07 |
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1427737056717967367
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