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.
image description : a dutch person standing in a flat field with two windmills in the background. he is holding a dutch flag and has on a tricorner hat and similar era clothing.
dutch text : wanneer je "Gekoloniseerd" Maar het is een nederlandse sub
A couple days before they posted this, someone posted headlines from around the world when Hitler died. All of them looked really official and then in Dutch it's "Hitler so dood" (Hitler is dead). Such a silly looking language for English speakers.
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?
Telefoon dood, wat nou?
What's wrong with tities?!
Someone mentioned that Hitler Dood thing was actually Afrikaans, not Dutch. But yeah, poor Dutch and their notities...
It would be the same in Dutch.
tities > notities
Came here to say this
R E K E N M A C H I N E
Sounds like a southerner's word for a calculator.
"Two times three? I reken that's a five."
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.
L I V E I N C O N C E R T!!!
ITSSATURDAYNIGHT
Proper name for the torture of mathematics condensed into a single program.
Our Dutch lemming friends rn:
https://i.imgflip.com/8uldwf.jpg
more like :
image description : a dutch person standing in a flat field with two windmills in the background. he is holding a dutch flag and has on a tricorner hat and similar era clothing.
dutch text : wanneer je "Gekoloniseerd" Maar het is een nederlandse sub
🙏
Kokosnoot
As a Dutch person, I can confirm
I never considered the possibility of my language being funny before I saw the memes. Except for the dutch they speak in Flanders.
I wish the Dutch were real 😔
PANIEK
Why does Foto's have an apostrophe?
I'm not an expert but probably because it's Dutch
Plural of words ending with a vowel (except "e") uses the apostrophe.
Only if it's a short 'e', if the pronunciation is long, you do use an apostrophe.
Gotcha, makes sense
Niet omdat het moet, maar omdat het kan
100 hours learning Dutch in duolingo and I still had to go look this up. /smh
Is that about right?
No, it roughly translates to
And the intonation matches: doing stuff for the fun of it.
Why nut?
Fuck duolingo, if I ever see that bird again I am going to jail for animal abuse
They don’t give you the fun local saying we have here.
I think my favorite one my Dutch buddy told me about was "Helaas pindakaas." If not that, I also love the insult "droplul."
Nie omdat ek moet, maar omdat ek kan.
Show me them notities
Remember notities.
1 month from now...
Expectation:
"Haha notiddies. Man, what a meme that was!"
Reality:
Me not remembering ever seeing this post in my life.
Hier ben ik dan, 1 maand later. Notities?
Not the notities!!!!
geef me een klap papa
Hitler so dood.
🤨
A couple days before they posted this, someone posted headlines from around the world when Hitler died. All of them looked really official and then in Dutch it's "Hitler so dood" (Hitler is dead). Such a silly looking language for English speakers.
Only it was Afrikaans
What I saw was Dutch, but the line reads the same in both languages.
This one:
https://lemmy.world/post/16728901
The one I saw had several different magazines from multiple countries.
Lekker met de instellingen klooien
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?
DIE BART DIE
"Lekker" actually means tasty in Dutch, however it can be used as "enjoyable" or something in this context, kind of weird actually
In Afrikaans it’s like calling something “rad” or “cool”. Like “lekker mate” when someone asks how you are.
Yeah, I think rad might be a decent translation in Dutch aswell
It's dutch yeah
Neat