So welcome on board looks normal, but welkom aan boord looks weird? Sure.
Because dutch is the closest extant language to old English, hell Frisian is actually mutually intelligible with old English
Willkommen an Bord!
Hmm, almost as if English and Dutch would share something, like a shared origin or something
It also is really german “Willkommen an bord”
I love it German English child with infantile alcoholism
no its not. its just german in funny 😀
I can say the same as a German. Just mix German with a proper speech defect and you’ll be speaking perfect Dutch
Mfw Germanic languages look alike
Iets met raketwerper ofzo 🚀
At first sight I though it was a Red Dead Redemption meme
I have a fun story for you, but for the sake of it being on Reddit I’ll simplify it. But before I do I want to point out that Danish and Dutch are both Proto-Germanic languages and have many words in common.
Anyways, here we go:
– Danish vikings come to England
– Danish Vikings plunder and conquer
– Danish cities in England thrive
– Through said cities, viking affected the language, changing some words (localization) and adding others
Fun fact – all English cities ending in “-by” are old Danish Viking settlements – although they’re not the only ones.
Fun fact 2 – Ironically some of the words, which were adopted into English are no longer used in the Danish. A common example is “husband”, which used to be “husbond” in Danish but is now just “mand”
Yank posting
No, you got it the other way around. Dutch has consistent pronunciation. In English, read and read are different words.
im currently learning dutch and it’s kinda crazy, they love to put “aa” in every 2 words
Because we and the Yanks had an overall good run the last couple of centuries that gaslit you into thinking modern English is some global ISO standard for its linguistic subbranch… and that leaves its closest relatives Dutch, Frisian and Scots in the uncanny valley to make jokes about.
Maybe if the Dutch Golden Age had continued (which might have required their population to be relatively larger?) then you’d feel the same about English.
A famous Dutch here once said..
>Cunntreh. Weeuws is eh cunntreh.
>When did the brits mutilate english like this?
It’s English feat. German
Or how we call it: Toddler German
One thing that upsets me is that I don’t know what’s odd about Dutch, I speak it and it looks normal to me, maybe a bit strange but that’s it
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Bro it’s German in stupid letters
I know, we’re special because we know at least both Dutch and English, that’s a minimum of two languages!
But don’t sell yourself short: you also know 2 languages, making you special too! <3
He says Dutch is stupid but spells ‘ass’ ‘ahh’.
An Italian speaking proper English, decent
Sounds Irish
says the person that can’t properly spell ‘ass’.
Eh German is just English with far too many goosesteps
I always thought English was a simplified Dutch for people with mental disabilities.
I’m mostly disappointed aan boord is two words, are they no longer in team germanic?
German sounding English?
Welkom aan boord, wat nou?
It’s funny when you speak German and English you will understand ~50-70 of dutch writing or even more
Ahh?
This isn’t fucking TikTok mate…
Anyone who uses TikTok replacement words like “ahh” is a complete fucking gimp.
Italian is just spanish with more i’s
Somebody tell him about Afrikaans, which sounds like Dutch spoken by a deaf, mentally challenged individual.
English for the Dutch must feel like polish does for everyone else, with the relative lack of vowels and all
https://preview.redd.it/gulqiln053df1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b16baa89c612087d14f54f6f93148cec4ef3917
So welcome on board looks normal, but welkom aan boord looks weird? Sure.
Because dutch is the closest extant language to old English, hell Frisian is actually mutually intelligible with old English
Willkommen an Bord!
Hmm, almost as if English and Dutch would share something, like a shared origin or something
It also is really german “Willkommen an bord”
I love it German English child with infantile alcoholism
no its not. its just german in funny 😀
I can say the same as a German. Just mix German with a proper speech defect and you’ll be speaking perfect Dutch
Mfw Germanic languages look alike
Iets met raketwerper ofzo 🚀
At first sight I though it was a Red Dead Redemption meme
I have a fun story for you, but for the sake of it being on Reddit I’ll simplify it. But before I do I want to point out that Danish and Dutch are both Proto-Germanic languages and have many words in common.
Anyways, here we go:
– Danish vikings come to England
– Danish Vikings plunder and conquer
– Danish cities in England thrive
– Through said cities, viking affected the language, changing some words (localization) and adding others
Fun fact – all English cities ending in “-by” are old Danish Viking settlements – although they’re not the only ones.
Fun fact 2 – Ironically some of the words, which were adopted into English are no longer used in the Danish. A common example is “husband”, which used to be “husbond” in Danish but is now just “mand”
Yank posting
No, you got it the other way around. Dutch has consistent pronunciation. In English, read and read are different words.
im currently learning dutch and it’s kinda crazy, they love to put “aa” in every 2 words
Because we and the Yanks had an overall good run the last couple of centuries that gaslit you into thinking modern English is some global ISO standard for its linguistic subbranch… and that leaves its closest relatives Dutch, Frisian and Scots in the uncanny valley to make jokes about.
Maybe if the Dutch Golden Age had continued (which might have required their population to be relatively larger?) then you’d feel the same about English.
A famous Dutch here once said..
>Cunntreh. Weeuws is eh cunntreh.
>When did the brits mutilate english like this?
It’s English feat. German
Or how we call it: Toddler German
One thing that upsets me is that I don’t know what’s odd about Dutch, I speak it and it looks normal to me, maybe a bit strange but that’s it
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