Topic: Duutch iis aa fuunny laanguuaagee
Anonymous A started this discussion 10 years ago #51,782
aall yoouu doo iis aadd aa seecoond vooweell aand yoouu aaree speeaakiing duutch
reeaally iit iis thaat siimplee
reeaally iit iis thaat siimplee
RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 38 minutes later[^] [v] #671,712
i can't read dutch
r04r or dw, what does it say?
r04r or dw, what does it say?
Metæ joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 5 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,764
*Afrikaans
Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 36 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,765
oort cloud
RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 9 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,766
Adam Djensen joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 23 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,767
RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 23 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,769
Ius alsodius havus aius interestingdium pieceius ofus languagium triviaius. Inus ordero touis speakus latinium, youius mustus merelyium appendus latinium soundingium suffixsum touis theus endus ofus yourium wordsius.
Itus reallyium isum thatus simpleus.
@previous (Adam Djensen)
I'm pretty sure it is. They're about as different as American English and British English.
Itus reallyium isum thatus simpleus.
@previous (Adam Djensen)
I'm pretty sure it is. They're about as different as American English and British English.
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Metæ replied with this 10 years ago, 19 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,772
@671,766 (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
@previous (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
Yes! But Afrikaans came first, and Dutch is the corrupted version.
@previous (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
Yes! But Afrikaans came first, and Dutch is the corrupted version.
RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 13 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,774
@previous (Metæ)
It's fascinating how peoples so far apart have ended up sharing a language, isn't it? We can understand each other perfectly despite being in Cornwall and Texas respectively, and dreamworks could fully understand an Afrikaans-speaking gentleman all the way over in Cape Town.
It's fascinating how peoples so far apart have ended up sharing a language, isn't it? We can understand each other perfectly despite being in Cornwall and Texas respectively, and dreamworks could fully understand an Afrikaans-speaking gentleman all the way over in Cape Town.
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lost soul joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,778
Afrikaans is the most beautiful language in the world
Afrikaans and Dutch is like
Egyptian Arabic and Iraqi Arabic
Afrikaans and Dutch is like
Egyptian Arabic and Iraqi Arabic
Metæ replied with this 10 years ago, 58 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,781
@671,774 (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
It is! What amazes me also is so little divergence has happened between the different Englishes over 200 years. When you consider hundreds of thousands of words are passed down from generation to generation on opposite ends of the world, but yet the language still works.
It is! What amazes me also is so little divergence has happened between the different Englishes over 200 years. When you consider hundreds of thousands of words are passed down from generation to generation on opposite ends of the world, but yet the language still works.
TTEH !PUPenis69. joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 3 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,793
That looks more like Finnish...
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 7 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,794
plot twist, ro4r cant even understand dutch
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 36 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,796
@671,774 (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
@671,769 (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
No. You're a fucking idiot.
They're separate languages.
@671,769 (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
No. You're a fucking idiot.
They're separate languages.
TTEH !PUPenis69. replied with this 10 years ago, 21 seconds later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,797
@671,769 (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
> I'm pretty sure it is. They're about as different as American English and British English
They're mostly mutually intelligible (though Afrikaans speakers have a harder time understanding Dutch than vice versa), but there are a lot more differences than AmE and BrE. They don't really conjugate verbs, which is very different from Dutch ((and English) (and most languages)), so you get hy is (he is), but also ek is (I is), ons is (we is) and so on. That alone is a bigger grammatical shift than anything in AmE. You could compare Afrikaans' ij -> y (like prijs in Dutch becomes prys in Afrikaans) to ou -> u, e.g. colour -> color, but there are a lot more examples of this than there are in AmE/BrE -- we basically have ou/u and z/s and that's it. Afrikaans also has double negative (Ek hou nie van buitelanders nie., Ek Killer Lettuce nie haat nie., etc.) and has no grammatical gender (Dutch has two, German three) so only one definite article instead of two (or three).
And that's just grammar, there are many more words in Afrikaans entirely absent in Dutch, that came to the language through Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho, and Tswana (and like 100 more I can't name).
A lot of Afrikaans speakers might just be able to get the gist of some Dutch conversation without fully understanding it, whereas Brits will very rarely struggle to understand Yanks, except when they're using idioms (and essentially vice versa).
> I'm pretty sure it is. They're about as different as American English and British English
They're mostly mutually intelligible (though Afrikaans speakers have a harder time understanding Dutch than vice versa), but there are a lot more differences than AmE and BrE. They don't really conjugate verbs, which is very different from Dutch ((and English) (and most languages)), so you get hy is (he is), but also ek is (I is), ons is (we is) and so on. That alone is a bigger grammatical shift than anything in AmE. You could compare Afrikaans' ij -> y (like prijs in Dutch becomes prys in Afrikaans) to ou -> u, e.g. colour -> color, but there are a lot more examples of this than there are in AmE/BrE -- we basically have ou/u and z/s and that's it. Afrikaans also has double negative (Ek hou nie van buitelanders nie., Ek Killer Lettuce nie haat nie., etc.) and has no grammatical gender (Dutch has two, German three) so only one definite article instead of two (or three).
And that's just grammar, there are many more words in Afrikaans entirely absent in Dutch, that came to the language through Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho, and Tswana (and like 100 more I can't name).
A lot of Afrikaans speakers might just be able to get the gist of some Dutch conversation without fully understanding it, whereas Brits will very rarely struggle to understand Yanks, except when they're using idioms (and essentially vice versa).
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Anonymous I replied with this 10 years ago, 8 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,798
TTEH !PUPenis69. replied with this 10 years ago, 11 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,800
@previous (I)
Nah, I'm British. I worked with a Namibian lady who was fluent in Afrikaans and picked up a bit from her, and read some Afrikaans grammar when I was learning Dutch. It's an interesting language!
Nah, I'm British. I worked with a Namibian lady who was fluent in Afrikaans and picked up a bit from her, and read some Afrikaans grammar when I was learning Dutch. It's an interesting language!
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RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 4 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,802
@671,781 (Metæ)
I was mostly saying that to carry on the joke. But yes, it is nice that everything has stayed so consistent. Earlier linguists thought that all of the English languages would steadily diverge. But I guess that the modern world's extreme ease of communication and the strong cultural power of English-speaking countries has kept that from happening.
@671,796 (I)
I'm joking. I thought it was fairly obvious, from how I told a native speaker that he was wrong, and how Meta said that Afrikaans came first.
I was mostly saying that to carry on the joke. But yes, it is nice that everything has stayed so consistent. Earlier linguists thought that all of the English languages would steadily diverge. But I guess that the modern world's extreme ease of communication and the strong cultural power of English-speaking countries has kept that from happening.
@671,796 (I)
I'm joking. I thought it was fairly obvious, from how I told a native speaker that he was wrong, and how Meta said that Afrikaans came first.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,803
@previous (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
You guys can sometimes have an impossible to understand accent. You need to work on that.
You guys can sometimes have an impossible to understand accent. You need to work on that.
TTEH !PUPenis69. replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,804
TTEH !PUPenis69. double-posted this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,805
RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #671,806
@671,803 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
You bedder not bleddy say that 'round 'ere, boy. We can't stand them emmet buggers 'round 'ere.
@671,804 (TTEH !PUPenis69.)
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You bedder not bleddy say that 'round 'ere, boy. We can't stand them emmet buggers 'round 'ere.
@671,804 (TTEH !PUPenis69.)
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