(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)

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
    37·
    3 months ago

    I’m Deutsch and to me Dutch sounds really funny. Even a harmless word like “ontwikkelingen”. Not to speak of “Grachten” (said correctly), Pindakaas and Poffertjes. Lekker! I wonder if the opposite applies, too.

    BTW, Geert Wilders deserves all the ridicule he gets, and more.

          • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            Flemish sounds funny?

            Jullie klinken alsof je constant rochelt terwijl je praat.

            Flemish is so much softer, and quite a bit of vocabulary is different, which could lead to confusing situations.

            • sepiroth154@feddit.nlEnglish
              3·
              3 months ago

              I completely agree with everything else you said but you call “fucking” “shitting” and that’s just hilarious.

              • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                Except we don’t. There’s a very distinct length in the “oe” sounds. Short is fucking, long is pooping. It’s like the difference between “e” and “ee”.

                Try to pronounce it with these e sounds, then replace them with the oe sounds. That’s the difference.

    • hexdream@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      South African here. I got about half,but my Afrikaans (derived from dutch) is not great. )

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      English and Dutch are cousin languages who are relatively close by Germanic standards, though if you want a real mind fuck listen to or read Frisian. Also the old Runic alphabet for the Lowlands and England are called anglo-frisian runes.