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From the perspective of a Dutchman: same. "Gezellig" really doesn't sum up the heart of Dutch culture in the slightest - not to mention it's old, if you show up
by TheRealPomax 4y ago
From the perspective of a Dutchman: same. "Gezellig" really doesn't sum up the heart of Dutch culture in the slightest - not to mention it's old, if you show up at a party and someone goes "gezellig", it's time to leave, this is your grandparents' party. Or you have some extremely boring middle class "huisje boompje beestje" ("buy a house, plant a tree, get a pet" to refer to settling down and never aspiring to anything after) friends, of course.
- ricardobeat 4y agoWhat kind of aspirations do you expect from most people? I always thought being content with a simple life was part of the magic.
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- TheRealPomax 4y agoGiven Dutch demographics and prevalence of cheap (on the world stage) and highly regarded university degrees? Quite a lot. Dutch culture was shaped by entrepreneurship more than anything else (Except maybe plausibly deniable exploitation of entire people groups up to extremely recently, a cultural trait shared by an embarassingly large number of European countries).
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoIf this word means both of the definitions defines by the commenters above that'd make it a Janus word, or autantonym. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym