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I thought this was going to be an ad for a keyboard layout.

by aetherspawn 7y ago

hoistbypetard 7y ago
I'm overly happy that I'm not the only one who thought that.
- lucb1e 7y ago
  What about it makes it sound like a keyboard model? As a Dutchman I'm having a hard time ignoring the real meaning and seeing what keyboard related thing it resembles in English.
  - AndrewDucker 7y ago
    The middle row of a Qwerty keyboard starts asdfghjkl, and I think that to people who aren't used to it that looks similar.
    - schoen 7y ago
      It even uses 7/9 QWERTY home row letters (asdfjkl) and only three non-home-row letters (tui, all from the top row). That feels very credible as keyboard-mashing output!
  - gherkinnn 7y ago
    It looks like I rolled my face over a keyboard. None of the potential substrings make any sense to me, so it’s one long jumble.
    - lucb1e 7y ago
      Hehe okay. Not sure it's mentioned anywhere: it consists of two words (similar to English compound words like "sundial"): afsluit and dijk, where dijk pronounced similar to dike and means the same. Afsluit is less close to English and means "enclosure". The enclosure dike. Wikipedia says "enclosure dam", which is more accurate since a dam has water on two sides, as the afsluit-dijk does, but that's not what we call it in Dutch. Then it would have been afsluitdam -- yes, dam and dam are the same in Dutch and English, just like dike and dijk are very similar. Wonder why! :-) Edit: not sure why you're being downvoted?! I always find it rude when people downvote without comment (also on stackoverflow, I typically comment when I see it on my own or someone else's posts).
      - gyuserbti 7y ago
        As a native English speaker with Dutch colleagues, I've always thought Dutch was remarkably close. Once you kinda figure out pronunciation patterns a lot of it is very similar. Written Dutch is the only language I intuitively perceive the cognate rrelationships with.
        vanderZwan 7y ago
        Supposedly we are the second-closest language to English linguistically (I'm not sure by what measure - I'm not a linguist). Only Frisian, which has many similarities to Old English, is closer.
      - gherkinnn 7y ago
        Ah. That’s where the name Dijkstra comes from, ey?
        lucb1e 7y ago
        I don't know what the -sta suffix means, aside from that it's a last name suffix (Hoekstra comes to mind, a last name which could be translated as corner-stra or angle-stra). It's not very common though and I can't think of any other -stra names. My first thought is that someone named Dijkstra historically constructed dikes, but then Hoekstra constructed... corners or angles?! Unless hoek had a different meaning in the middle ages, that can't be it. Edit: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra (English page does not contain the important part) Apparently -stra comes from some germanic word meaning "owner". I suppose Hoekstra owned the corner house and Dijkstra the dike.
        jeroen 7y ago
        > The suffix "-stra" is, like "-ster", derived from the old Germanic "-sater", to be translated as a seater or resident. -- https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra (through Google translate)
      - 7y ago
peterburkimsher 7y ago
That's how I felt when reading about Djedkheperew (an Egyptian pharaoh) the other day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djedkheperew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djedkheperew
smitty1e 7y ago
Whereas I wondered the precise meaning and original tongue of this insult.
Alex3917 7y ago
Or an IKEA product.
DonHopkins 7y ago
Not to be confused with Opleidingsinstituut Qwerty. http://qwertyopleidingen.nl/ http://qwertyopleidingen.nl/

I thought this was going to be an ad for a keyboard layout.

hoistbypetard 7y ago

I'm overly happy that I'm not the only one who thought that.

lucb1e 7y ago
What about it makes it sound like a keyboard model? As a Dutchman I'm having a hard time ignoring the real meaning and seeing what keyboard related thing it resembles in English.
- AndrewDucker 7y ago
  The middle row of a Qwerty keyboard starts asdfghjkl, and I think that to people who aren't used to it that looks similar.
  - schoen 7y ago
    It even uses 7/9 QWERTY home row letters (asdfjkl) and only three non-home-row letters (tui, all from the top row). That feels very credible as keyboard-mashing output!
- gherkinnn 7y ago
  It looks like I rolled my face over a keyboard. None of the potential substrings make any sense to me, so it’s one long jumble.
  - lucb1e 7y ago
    Hehe okay. Not sure it's mentioned anywhere: it consists of two words (similar to English compound words like "sundial"): afsluit and dijk, where dijk pronounced similar to dike and means the same. Afsluit is less close to English and means "enclosure". The enclosure dike. Wikipedia says "enclosure dam", which is more accurate since a dam has water on two sides, as the afsluit-dijk does, but that's not what we call it in Dutch. Then it would have been afsluitdam -- yes, dam and dam are the same in Dutch and English, just like dike and dijk are very similar. Wonder why! :-) Edit: not sure why you're being downvoted?! I always find it rude when people downvote without comment (also on stackoverflow, I typically comment when I see it on my own or someone else's posts).
    - gyuserbti 7y ago
      As a native English speaker with Dutch colleagues, I've always thought Dutch was remarkably close. Once you kinda figure out pronunciation patterns a lot of it is very similar. Written Dutch is the only language I intuitively perceive the cognate rrelationships with.
      - vanderZwan 7y ago
        Supposedly we are the second-closest language to English linguistically (I'm not sure by what measure - I'm not a linguist). Only Frisian, which has many similarities to Old English, is closer.
    - gherkinnn 7y ago
      Ah. That’s where the name Dijkstra comes from, ey?
      - lucb1e 7y ago
        I don't know what the -sta suffix means, aside from that it's a last name suffix (Hoekstra comes to mind, a last name which could be translated as corner-stra or angle-stra). It's not very common though and I can't think of any other -stra names. My first thought is that someone named Dijkstra historically constructed dikes, but then Hoekstra constructed... corners or angles?! Unless hoek had a different meaning in the middle ages, that can't be it. Edit: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra (English page does not contain the important part) Apparently -stra comes from some germanic word meaning "owner". I suppose Hoekstra owned the corner house and Dijkstra the dike.
        jeroen 7y ago
        > The suffix "-stra" is, like "-ster", derived from the old Germanic "-sater", to be translated as a seater or resident. -- https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra (through Google translate)
    - 7y ago

peterburkimsher 7y ago

That's how I felt when reading about Djedkheperew (an Egyptian pharaoh) the other day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djedkheperew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djedkheperew

smitty1e 7y ago

Whereas I wondered the precise meaning and original tongue of this insult.

Alex3917 7y ago

Or an IKEA product.

DonHopkins 7y ago

Not to be confused with Opleidingsinstituut Qwerty. http://qwertyopleidingen.nl/ http://qwertyopleidingen.nl/