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Im going to attempt speaking afrikaans in this thread
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2019-02-17 at 9:20 AM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie While it's true English has a common ancestor with Dutch, English and Dutch aren't very mutually intelligible.
Yeah I suppose even "quasi" intelligible isn't quite accurate.
There might be the occasional word in a given sentence that's somewhat recognizable, but it likely wouldn't result in a totally inexperienced speaker being able to understand the whole sentence.
For fun, I wrote out a couple random sentences in English and used Google Translate to get the Dutch translation... Then I went from English to Afrikaans...
English:
hi my name is carl. i enjoy sports and travelling around the world.
Dutch:
hallo mijn naam is carl. ik geniet van sporten en reizen over de hele wereld.
Afrikaans:
hi my naam is carl. Ek geniet sport en reis oor die wêreld.
Definitely way more similarities between Dutch and Afrikaans than between English and either. -
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2019-02-17 at 6:04 PM UTCNo one here will know phonejacker
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2019-02-17 at 6:05 PM UTCyee
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2019-02-17 at 7:05 PM UTCThis is what i think of....
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2019-02-17 at 10:33 PM UTCShieeeetttt.
Wish i spoke Jive.
By the by, written Afrikaans is easy to comprehend for someone who reads Dutch, the spoken variety is a little harder. -
2019-02-17 at 10:37 PM UTCThat's because Europeans are basically niggers
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2019-02-17 at 10:41 PM UTC
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2019-02-17 at 10:42 PM UTCAlso not knowing the difference between Germany and Holland is some top tier ignorance.
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2019-02-17 at 10:46 PM UTCYou mean Africa
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2019-02-18 at 6:15 AM UTCFona wants that dick crammed down his throat..
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2019-02-18 at 6:18 AM UTChe wants to be on a boat covered in seamen
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2019-02-18 at 6:20 AM UTCThose who quote that shit would puff a fat one..