and it's not just a meme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honkbal_Hoofdklasse
I find it very funny that at the core of the anglo psyche is a very strong self loathing of their own germanic origins.
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I don't hate it I just think the fact it has the English words "honk" and "ball" in it when you squint is really funny
Self hating germanics validating anti-germanic stereotypes smh.
Have you seen all the shit the people of my Germanic origins have done? I'll distance myself from that as much as humanly possible thank you very much
Have you ever heard someone speaking dutch? it's like silly english.
Whenever I hear dutch I have a brief moment where I think I'm having an aneurysm and am no longer able to recognise my own language. Then I realise it's just dutch.
I was once visiting a dutch friend and I was having a Skype chat with some family in Denmark. After the chat my dutch friends goes "ghk hgk ghk. That's what you guys sound like." He thought it was very funny until I reminded him that he spoke dutch.
A true classic https://youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
I knew it would be the kamelåså video. If we're talking about scandinavian language funny videos I'm much more into øresunds-visan or Osten skal svømme!
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Wait until you hear Afrikaans...
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the spelling looks like a 5 year old's attempt at spelling german by ear
That's basically what the language is I guess?
oh yeah, it's basically a historical accident that dutch isnt just another low german dialect
Honkbal yes of course real sports are our specialty here in nederland
we hebben een serieus probleem
Yeah fuck it ill just call it honkeyball from now on.
Yes, but also Honkbal is very fitting name for that game.
Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads wrote a song about it:
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Norwegian rather than Dutch, but there's a grocery store chain called MENY that's advertising its single bananas with a sign that reads "SINGEL MEN LIKE GOD" — meaning "single but just as good"
I was also at the library the other day, and I couldn't help but wonder how a monolingual anglophone would react to the section signs looking like
CW homophobic slur
←FАG — FАG→ — ←FАG — FАG→ — ←FАG — FАG BARN→
In other words "nonfiction" and "nonfiction, children"
And I apologize to our screenreader using comrades for any inconvenience that may have come from replacing Latin A with Cyrillic A, I was just worried that the slur filter would censor the word.
Pls don't send me to the barn
What, don't you want to see the eighteen naked cowboys in the showers?
... ok slide me the address but keep it on the down low ya feel me?
Lmao what Dutch sounds like to English ears is what English sounds like to everybody else. Glass houses and all that
100% correct
You talk a lot of shit for someone speaking english. Goofy ahh language
Ik snap de grap niet
Geef me een klap papa
Wait until you hear about Afrikaans...
I've got a buddy who spent some time in southern Africa, and his Afrikaans impression always cracks me up. He says Afrikaaner men especially sound like angry vikings talking with mouthfuls of shit
Wompty dompty dom