Dutch
June 17, 2008Thom_Holwerda: Dutch is like, take English, mix it with German, add some Danish, Swedish, French, and lots of Latin, then drink until you’re totally drunk so you get the pronunciation right, and then make all sorts of rules with millions of exceptions, and those exceptions have rules with exceptions, and those exceptions have exceptions with exceptions…
Thom_Holwerda: …and then you have something resembling Dutch.
pyCube__: Dutch is like a drunk Englishman trying to speak German… Or the other way around.
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try to explain the difference between “die” and “dat”, even dutch people are not able to do that. just use what feels right is the common solution.
Comment by alwin — June 17, 2008 @ 10:34 pm
“de hond” (the dog) becomes “die hond” (female/male) while “het huis” (the house) becomes “dat huis” (neutral).
Comment by righard — June 17, 2008 @ 10:47 pm
@righard: how many Dutch people do you know who actually KNOW which words are male/female/neuter?
Most Dutch only know what ‘feels’ right or wrong and don’t know why… ;-)
Comment by LoeZ — June 18, 2008 @ 10:34 am
You’re right, I know nobody :)
Comment by righard — June 18, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
I didn’t say that, but if you’re gonna say it yourself I can only agree… ;)
Comment by LoeZ — June 18, 2008 @ 4:51 pm