• @elbucho@lemmy.world
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    473 months ago

    Nobody will ever be able to convince me that Dutch is a serious language developed by people who weren’t just trying to troll both English and German speakers.

          • @elbucho@lemmy.world
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            33 months ago

            I mean, that’s basically saying that someone who uses slang isn’t speaking their native language. Poopensharten and cuckstoel might not be explicitly Dutch, but they’re Dutch-ish in an otherwise Dutch sentence.

            • @watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              33 months ago

              Those words are not Dutch and neither is the grammar of the sentence, if you accept those words as real. Poopensharten is not Dutch-like, our words are not constructed like that and the phonemes are wrong for the language. I’m guessing it’s an American slang term. The sentence is pseudo-Dutch, and that’s what makes it funny, even to native Dutch speakers.