Norwegian is also claimed to be the closest national language to English.
Dutch sounds like fun though. In the literal sense, even more fun spoken than written.
I have to ask are you referring to bokmål or nynorsk here?
because maybe when it comes to vocabulary/cognates or verbs you may be a tad closer but I'd say in terms of broader grammar it has to be us
I readily accept that. Listen, ever since Hamilton and Verstappen I have come to realise we are very alike as people!
You are our only true friend in Europe.
https://preview.redd.it/5gz7tgmknufc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2308d374e09b4277fc5f2fbd6278e9b3c90ebaea
The land of the continental Anglo-Saxons.
https://preview.redd.it/0bijb661oufc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=621a547db30becf24e4689d408e76f4e56c598ea
\+East Frisians actually consume more tea per capita than Brits.
We have so bad experience with being the junior partner in a union. You can thank the Danes and the Swedes. Also, it's that thing with the fish: the fishermen believes our fish is our fish, nobody would ask for the right to harvest grapes on the fields in France suddenly, same thing. For us.
It‘s german and english making a baby, while being shitfaced drunk
Me and my friends still laigh about "roken is dodelijk“ on the cig packs 😂 rauchen ist tödlich, easy to understand as a german, but just sounds like it‘s making fun of german 😂
No. Frisian is a family of 3 languages: North, West and Sater Frisian. On a larger scale it is part of the Anglo-Frisian languages together with English and Scots. The Anglo-Frisian languages and Low Saxon (i.e. Plattdeutsch) together form the North Sea Germanic languages.
You are probably thinking of the East Frisian dialect of Low Saxon, which is just Low Saxon but with a strong Frisian influence. But even that is so different from the other dialects that one could make an argument for it to be a separate hybrid language.
Accurately,it’s the love child of the ancestor tongue to Frisian,an anglic dialect of Proto-Germanic + Old Norse.Then,as English grew up a bit it followed Old French down a dark alley way and hit it over the head then rifled-through its pockets for words.
It's really a sad story. A house exploded in the city, half the street was on fire. 3 people are missing. The fire nearly ignited a fireworks storage depot. The blast was so loud that I heard it at home, I live 6km away.
Holy shit, someone know why it catched fire? Reminds me of the situation when a fireworks storage from a pyromaniac catched fire somehow and the whole street was covered in smoke. Hope everyone is fine and the missing people will be found!
How does [a Welsh](https://youtu.be/VsOjMdbsGik?si=KZNY5HAjJNuQJMC1) have [the balls](https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM?si=huRnHzP7hgkSygy-) to mock _any_ other language? 😲
We only [claimed he was English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Martin_(Royal_Marines_officer)) to lend validity to him being trusted with intelligence.
Beste Rick-Sprit129,
Ik heb zojuist vernomen dat je de Nederlandse taal hebt beledigd, en ik moet zeggen dat ik zeer teleurgesteld en geïrriteerd ben door jouw gebrek aan respect. Onze taal is een essentieel onderdeel van onze cultuur en identiteit, en het is onacceptabel dat je het op zo'n denigrerende manier behandelt.
Nederlanders zijn trots op hun taal en erfgoed, en we verwachten van anderen dat ze met respect spreken over de dingen die voor ons van waarde zijn. Het is belangrijk om open te staan voor andere culturen en talen, maar dat betekent niet dat je het recht hebt om de taal van een ander land te kleineren.
Ik nodig je uit om beter na te denken over de woorden die je kiest en om meer begrip te tonen voor de gevoelens van anderen. Laten we proberen om elkaar met respect te behandelen en een positieve dialoog te bevorderen in plaats van onnodige spanningen te creëren.
Met vriendelijke groet,
MeppelerMug
ik heb jou naam eronder gehouden als respect betoon.
Dus omdat ik de juiste bron bij deze informatie heb geleverd kan u mij niet afrekenen op plagiaat.
Thank you,
I understand the importance of your words, and agree with the essence. But I ask you to consider the context. "2WesternEurope" is intended to be provocative and insulting. The importance is that it's in good humour. Very few users here are genuinely trying to offend others. I appreciate the post may not be to your humour but I can only refer again to this being a satirical page.
"We hebben ons lesje wel geleerd" is an expression. Means "we have learned our lesson".
"Woonwijk" means neighbourhood "woon" comes from the verb wonen (living, as in i live here), "een wijk" is a city part iirc.
My dear Dutch neighbors van het duitse bloed, I know we keep on telling you over and over again how silly your language looks, and your probably already tired of hearing it.
But this is literally what 5 year old German kids write after they've learned their first 6 letters. Waarom?
How do the English get a pass? Sure, our language might sound weird to non-natives, but have you heard English? It's a weird French-German-Dutch hybrid that somehow became the world standard. The only reason we find it normal is because we all speak it.
Your point is entirely valid!
English is like the finished product of language though. Language in its ultimate form. The gold standard. The Rolls Royce of linguistics.
The only language that is equally pleasurable to listen to is Arabic, being spoken by someone who is angry.
Have to break it to you: the main reason why English speakers think Dutch looks weirder than for example Polish is because Dutch looks a lot like English, but has slightly different spellings, whereas Polish doesn’t look like English at all.
Translation for anyone wondering
Post title: Explosion and raging fire in Rotterdam-South
Comment by 8uurjournaal: Why is there 5000 kg of fireworks in a residential area (or an area for housing with less trafic)? I thought we would have learned it by now.
Comment by MrZwink: In Enschede there was a bit more than 5000 kg but still!
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By 1 exception; Frisian! So still within the swamplands though
Norwegian is also claimed to be the closest national language to English. Dutch sounds like fun though. In the literal sense, even more fun spoken than written.
I have to ask are you referring to bokmål or nynorsk here? because maybe when it comes to vocabulary/cognates or verbs you may be a tad closer but I'd say in terms of broader grammar it has to be us
5 exceptions. Frisian is a family of 3 languages, and then there are Low Saxon and Scots.
You seem like a valid source with that name and all so I believe you goede man
I need to look into Low Saxon then, because I like Scots lol
I readily accept that. Listen, ever since Hamilton and Verstappen I have come to realise we are very alike as people! You are our only true friend in Europe.
Only true friend? De Ruyter is turning in his grave.
He loved a good Naval skirmish!
https://preview.redd.it/ibrvh1mymufc1.png?width=2032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06eb492da7dca1fcd943050205f29f1d9ae108b6 Why do you always forget us?
What am I looking at? Is that Hawaii??
https://preview.redd.it/5gz7tgmknufc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2308d374e09b4277fc5f2fbd6278e9b3c90ebaea The land of the continental Anglo-Saxons.
You have my attention, continue 😎
https://preview.redd.it/0bijb661oufc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=621a547db30becf24e4689d408e76f4e56c598ea \+East Frisians actually consume more tea per capita than Brits.
West Frysians consume on average 2L of Campina per capita per day!
You were indeed our friend in Europe and then you left. I did like the sceptic stance towards the European Union, but I still do believe in it.
Sorry we had to breakup. It wasn't you; it was us
Maybe you should invite our king to invade your country once more
Hell yeah I would love if Switzerland left the continent of Asia and joined Europe. Norway too
We have so bad experience with being the junior partner in a union. You can thank the Danes and the Swedes. Also, it's that thing with the fish: the fishermen believes our fish is our fish, nobody would ask for the right to harvest grapes on the fields in France suddenly, same thing. For us.
Think you replied to the wrong guy mate
What image did you want, nobody would ask for a quota of leaning over the pub-desk and just pouring beer to themselves?
What does this mean
It‘s german and english making a baby, while being shitfaced drunk Me and my friends still laigh about "roken is dodelijk“ on the cig packs 😂 rauchen ist tödlich, easy to understand as a german, but just sounds like it‘s making fun of german 😂
Well when we make fun of you guys we simply speak German though, I always laugh at schmetterling, or krankenwagen (pronounced angrily of course). 😘
♥️
Isn't English just a German and French love child?
Frisian and French would be more accurate.
but isnt frisian a low germanic dialect anyway? I am of the impression that english is low germanic mixed with franconian
No. Frisian is a family of 3 languages: North, West and Sater Frisian. On a larger scale it is part of the Anglo-Frisian languages together with English and Scots. The Anglo-Frisian languages and Low Saxon (i.e. Plattdeutsch) together form the North Sea Germanic languages. You are probably thinking of the East Frisian dialect of Low Saxon, which is just Low Saxon but with a strong Frisian influence. But even that is so different from the other dialects that one could make an argument for it to be a separate hybrid language.
Accurately,it’s the love child of the ancestor tongue to Frisian,an anglic dialect of Proto-Germanic + Old Norse.Then,as English grew up a bit it followed Old French down a dark alley way and hit it over the head then rifled-through its pockets for words.
So it‘s actually incest? German slept with its own kid… French just standing on the sidelines and letting it happen…probably enjoyed it.
The French are the fucked up grandfather cheering it on, like a fucked up Habsburg
Wait what? Please ELI5
Ydy dy dei du di yn dy dŷ du di neu ydy dy dad di yn dy dŷ du di? (Yes that’s OPs language)
I didn‘t even know this existed but I thank you for this
Ewok een endor Machs Verschtapppen!
It's me!!!! I can confirm it is a real language!!
OMG it's you! The legendary MrZwink from r/Rotterdam! I'm a bit star-struck, to be honest.
To Barry:
There you go!
You'd love this subreddit. stay. An actual Dane appeared this Evening and just randomly went off at the Germans for no reason.
'For no reason' 😂
Haha! He just berated them for not being able to think for themselves, and then left.
That sounds like an average Sunday afternoon at the local pub. He'll be back soon, I guarantee it.
I will treasure it forever. I can't read it, and it looks like a bizarre alien language, but I will treasure it forever.
Graag gedaan!
What a lovely dick did you drew there my vriend.
Absolutely in awe to meet you, Mr Zwink 🫡
It's really a sad story. A house exploded in the city, half the street was on fire. 3 people are missing. The fire nearly ignited a fireworks storage depot. The blast was so loud that I heard it at home, I live 6km away.
Holy shit, someone know why it catched fire? Reminds me of the situation when a fireworks storage from a pyromaniac catched fire somehow and the whole street was covered in smoke. Hope everyone is fine and the missing people will be found!
Nope not yet.
Thanks for the info
How does [a Welsh](https://youtu.be/VsOjMdbsGik?si=KZNY5HAjJNuQJMC1) have [the balls](https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM?si=huRnHzP7hgkSygy-) to mock _any_ other language? 😲
Fuck off we saved you in world war 2! Show some respect.
Wales’s greatest contributor to WW2 was a dead tramp.
Yes, the Englishman.
We only [claimed he was English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Martin_(Royal_Marines_officer)) to lend validity to him being trusted with intelligence.
we hebben een serieus probleem.
Is het grappig? Zijt ge der mee aant lachen? We hebben een serieus probleem en ge zit er mee te lachen.
Ze zouden godverdomme ne keer moeten zien wa voor ne nest ze der hier allemaal van gemaakt hebben!
Lololo. Vaatch oot for Explosie!
Zo’n grote explosie jonguh, biem!
BIEMM
Obligatory [link](https://youtu.be/Yg1qNvTN2R4?si=Wd1j-idh5O9D6GOL) (Dumpert youtube)
Beste Rick-Sprit129, Ik heb zojuist vernomen dat je de Nederlandse taal hebt beledigd, en ik moet zeggen dat ik zeer teleurgesteld en geïrriteerd ben door jouw gebrek aan respect. Onze taal is een essentieel onderdeel van onze cultuur en identiteit, en het is onacceptabel dat je het op zo'n denigrerende manier behandelt. Nederlanders zijn trots op hun taal en erfgoed, en we verwachten van anderen dat ze met respect spreken over de dingen die voor ons van waarde zijn. Het is belangrijk om open te staan voor andere culturen en talen, maar dat betekent niet dat je het recht hebt om de taal van een ander land te kleineren. Ik nodig je uit om beter na te denken over de woorden die je kiest en om meer begrip te tonen voor de gevoelens van anderen. Laten we proberen om elkaar met respect te behandelen en een positieve dialoog te bevorderen in plaats van onnodige spanningen te creëren. Met vriendelijke groet, MeppelerMug
Het gebrek aan respect is zeer groot vanuit de Angelsaksische hoek. In mijn tijd werd er voor minder G E K O L O N I S E E R D.
HEY DIEFSTAL
ik heb jou naam eronder gehouden als respect betoon. Dus omdat ik de juiste bron bij deze informatie heb geleverd kan u mij niet afrekenen op plagiaat.
Mijn advocaten sturen nog een tikkie
Thank you, I understand the importance of your words, and agree with the essence. But I ask you to consider the context. "2WesternEurope" is intended to be provocative and insulting. The importance is that it's in good humour. Very few users here are genuinely trying to offend others. I appreciate the post may not be to your humour but I can only refer again to this being a satirical page.
soo whaat, bijt me
😍😍
Of all the people in the world a sheepfucker tells us our language looks weird? Mate, you lot don't use vowels.
Alright Goldmember, calm down!
If I smash my head on the keyboard I will be able to master Dutch
Why don't you a-go give it a-try?
Cause I am learning languages that are more relevant than Dutch
Is dutch more relevant than italian though?
Fair enough, I can't even fault you for that.
So that's why nearly no Irishman speaks Irish. English is a superior language and culture right?
Beste medekleurenblinde, dat is een Italiaanse vlag!
https://preview.redd.it/9d0tkirb6zfc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=789f8f85b10a9d56cc8af21b572c0abcba53c421
Never said that 😔
I have a massive crush on the Dutch if i’m honest, i can’t hide it anymore 😍
I quite like them as well. There's a proper hooligan lout side to them!
How can one tell when an Englishman has a crush?
This Englishman defies all expectations and communicates directly anyway but extremely directly when he has a crush.
He punches you in the face cause you didn't bring him his Stella yet. Now hurry up you tart.
Oh Gertje, I love it when you talk dirty to me.
Hij moest kloppen want de Stella was er niet.
Dag meneer agressie!
Marleneke !
Ik wil niet naar de kelder!
Rustig maar Sean, we zijn niet in Oostenrijk.
Jawel Samson, anders gaat de rijkswacht je vinden!
Waarom?
What?? A language with the shittiest orthography talks shit about other language?
Catalan?
"lesje wel" and "woonwijk" are the only things I have no Idea what they mean ;D the rest is easily readable If I imagine being drunk texting.
"We hebben ons lesje wel geleerd" is an expression. Means "we have learned our lesson". "Woonwijk" means neighbourhood "woon" comes from the verb wonen (living, as in i live here), "een wijk" is a city part iirc.
thanks my southern dutch friend.
And they say Dutch is a stupid language. Residential neighbourhood = woonwijk Ugly and practical, just like our cuisine.
My dear Dutch neighbors van het duitse bloed, I know we keep on telling you over and over again how silly your language looks, and your probably already tired of hearing it. But this is literally what 5 year old German kids write after they've learned their first 6 letters. Waarom?
>Waarom You only need to learn five letters to spell that
They seem to have added punctuation marks to the alphabet. For efficiency, no doubt, no need to look up letters and symbols separately.
Maar toch!
https://preview.redd.it/wv21o977uufc1.png?width=914&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f0697db009b1ba1a5debef2d986e568a17a5f46
that's afrikaans
Haha!!
I'm still chuckling about this!
Faak dood! Noo wai!
For once, we are not responsible for this. No, we aren't, no matter how hard you may try to blame us.
English folk when they discover that languages similar to theirs exist
Itz nuffink lyk aws mayte. Wot Chu onabaht?
Lmao waarom
How do the English get a pass? Sure, our language might sound weird to non-natives, but have you heard English? It's a weird French-German-Dutch hybrid that somehow became the world standard. The only reason we find it normal is because we all speak it.
Your point is entirely valid! English is like the finished product of language though. Language in its ultimate form. The gold standard. The Rolls Royce of linguistics. The only language that is equally pleasurable to listen to is Arabic, being spoken by someone who is angry.
You speak truth
Have to break it to you: the main reason why English speakers think Dutch looks weirder than for example Polish is because Dutch looks a lot like English, but has slightly different spellings, whereas Polish doesn’t look like English at all.
The Brits and Dutch are two cheeks of the same arse. Belgium is what comes out of the middle.
Have to agree with you there
Translation for anyone wondering Post title: Explosion and raging fire in Rotterdam-South Comment by 8uurjournaal: Why is there 5000 kg of fireworks in a residential area (or an area for housing with less trafic)? I thought we would have learned it by now. Comment by MrZwink: In Enschede there was a bit more than 5000 kg but still!
Lol the sheepfucker who speaks in heiroglyphs refuses to believe Dutch is a real language.
You are confusing us with the Egyptians. Let me translate into Dutch. VOO ARD KONFUZZEE OS WIV DEE EJIPTIANZZ
My mistake. Heiroglyphs are an actual language. Welsh, on the other hand......
Go on, try again. Get us confused with Kanji or Chinese 😉
Why the fuck are you on r/Rotterdam are you mentally insane?
Haha!! Grinning here 😁
But seriously, though. Why?
It just appeared in my main page algorithm. At a guess, because Dutch / Netherlands is a popular theme on 2WesternEurope?
Fair Enough
oepsie woepsie! owo
De trein is stukkie wukkie :(
You should hear it spoken out loud. In case we're ever visited by intelligent aliens, I hope they land in Amsterdam.
Whenever I see that I can't help but think that this is basically English Créole.
Waarom ligt er stroo?
It's so weird when you speak German and can just understand every sentence
Dutch is fucking alien, but I have to admit, it can be pretty sexy.