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This happens in Portugal vs Brazil. Portuguese have native terms ("mouse" is "rato") and Brazilians just import everything "mouse", "celular", "desktop".
by swah 8y ago
This happens in Portugal vs Brazil. Portuguese have native terms ("mouse" is "rato") and Brazilians just import everything "mouse", "celular", "desktop".
- radicalbyte 8y agoDutch vs Flemish is the same. The dutch use the English word and the Flemish make their own word.
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- toolslive 8y agoThat's not correct. The invented word probably comes from the 'Taalunie'. It might be that the Flemish adhere more to it than the Dutch (I have no statistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Language_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Language_Union
- radicalbyte 8y agoThey make a new word using Dutch spelling whereas the Dutch use the English words one-for-one. Basically all of the words around computing are English words (which actually made it harder to learn Dutch, you need to know when the English words are actually the correct ones).
- toolslive 8y agoI'm Flemish, and I worked in The Netherlands for more than 4 years. The dutch understand "muis" (mouse) "toetsenbord" (keyboard). There are dutch words with different meaning in both regions (like "aftrappen", "precies"). I think the biggest problem learning Dutch for foreigners (except for the rather complicated grammar) is that there are plenty of dialects (especially in Flanders).
- pjmlp 8y agoAnd sometimes both countries come up with totally unrelated terms to the original one. Spreadsheet => Folha de cálculo (Portugal), Planilha Electrônica (Brasil)