Is Afrikaans Dutch?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Is Afrikaans Dutch?

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

Afrikaans is about as understandable to Dutch people as Jamaican Patois is to English speakers. You can get used to the accent if you hear it a lot, but then there is still a significant difference in vocabulary and lots of random words that are meaningless to you, so it�s pretty difficult to be totally mutually comprehensible.

Why are you posting this in D&D? There is a Dutch/Afrikaans thread.

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twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

I will be dead and buried before I recognize the legitimatimacy of "Eemlands" as a dialect

# ¿ Feb 20, 2018 12:37

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