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That is a perfect translation! A a Dutch guy, I have the same with Norwegian, Swedish and maybe Danish: I can skim the headlines in newspapers and figure out w
by ragebol 3y ago
That is a perfect translation!
A a Dutch guy, I have the same with Norwegian, Swedish and maybe Danish: I can skim the headlines in newspapers and figure out what it's about.
- shiandow 3y agoIt's definitely quite readable. Good luck trying to figure out what a Dane is saying though.
- simongray 3y agoI think Danish and Dutch are much closer phonetically than Dutch is to any of the other two, so I'm not sure that overused meme applies in this case.
- Fnoord 3y agoDutch and Danish share heritage via Frysian and Saxon (English) heritage. IIRC the Frysian lived among the whole coast of North Sea from Holland till North-West Germany, and then enclaves in Denmark, too.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoDutch is a Franconian dialect though? They just didn’t go through the consonant shift like their cousins in the Rhineland. It isn’t really that closely related to Frisian or Low German and even less so to Norther Germanic.
- jacquesm 3y agoMoin?
- ragebol 3y agoWas watching Bron/The Bridge some time ago. Danish sounds like gibberish indeed, but then again "We hebben een serieus probleem" was a meme a little while back.
- noirscape 3y agoIt's called being mutually intelligible, which is when languages share enough words/sentence structure that you can understand the meaning of a sentence even if you can't directly translate it.