• Boxscape
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    5 months ago

    Telefoon dood, wat nou?

    Notities

    What’s wrong with tities?!

    • @SPRUNT
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      465 months ago

      Sounds like a southerner’s word for a calculator.

      “Two times three? I reken that’s a five.”

    • @Throw_away_migrator
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      65 months ago

      My new speed metal band, but all the songs are actually about math. Our debut album will be Hippasus of Metapontum with the single being Mystic Discourse.

    • Mrb2
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      145 months ago

      As a Dutch person, I can confirm

      • @[email protected]
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        65 months ago

        I never considered the possibility of my language being funny before I saw the memes. Except for the dutch they speak in Flanders.

  • @glimse
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    315 months ago

    Why does Foto’s have an apostrophe?

      • @SanderTuit
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        85 months ago

        Only if it’s a short ‘e’, if the pronunciation is long, you do use an apostrophe.

      • @glimse
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        55 months ago

        Gotcha, makes sense

    • @ThekingoflordaA
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      145 months ago

      Niet omdat het moet, maar omdat het kan

      • @[email protected]
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        75 months ago

        100 hours learning Dutch in duolingo and I still had to go look this up. /smh

        Don’t let it go, but let it go

        Is that about right?

        • @Cabslock
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          205 months ago

          No, it roughly translates to

          Not because i have to, but because I can

          • Scribbd
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            35 months ago

            And the intonation matches: doing stuff for the fun of it.

        • @ThekingoflordaA
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          35 months ago

          They don’t give you the fun local saying we have here.

          • LucasWaffyWaf
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            35 months ago

            I think my favorite one my Dutch buddy told me about was “Helaas pindakaas.” If not that, I also love the insult “droplul.”

      • @johsny
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        15 months ago

        Nie omdat ek moet, maar omdat ek kan.

  • @wabafee
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    205 months ago

    Remember notities.

    • Lemminary
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      5 months ago

      1 month from now…

      Expectation:

      “Haha notiddies. Man, what a meme that was!”

      Reality:

      Me not remembering ever seeing this post in my life.

  • @Vinny_93
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    115 months ago

    Lekker met de instellingen klooien

    • @moistclump
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      15 months ago

      I only know that lekker means cool in Afrikaans and that Afrikaans is very close to Dutch. I’m not versed enough to know if this sentence is in Afrikaans or Dutch.

      I also know that “the” is “die” in Afrikaans. Because I saw a book called “die bible” on someone’s table and thought it was a way cooler book than it was. With the “de” I’m back to thinking Dutch?

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        “Lekker” actually means tasty in Dutch, however it can be used as “enjoyable” or something in this context, kind of weird actually

        • @moistclump
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          15 months ago

          In Afrikaans it’s like calling something “rad” or “cool”. Like “lekker mate” when someone asks how you are.