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minus-squarelenuup@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·29 days agoas the only ones capable of proper English, the English language is passed on to the Dutch.
minus-squareJ92@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·29 days agoThe might as well take English. They just sound drunk when they speak their own language. (To Germans…apparently)
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·29 days agoThat one was always weird to me as a native German speaker. Dutch has very prominent sounds (mostly the G) that aren’t really present in standard German or English that remind me much more of sore throat or coughing than being drunk.
as the only ones capable of proper English, the English language is passed on to the Dutch.
The might as well take English. They just sound drunk when they speak their own language.
(To Germans…apparently)
That one was always weird to me as a native German speaker. Dutch has very prominent sounds (mostly the G) that aren’t really present in standard German or English that remind me much more of sore throat or coughing than being drunk.