and it's not just a meme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honkbal_Hoofdklasse
I find it very funny that at the core of the anglo psyche is a very strong self loathing of their own germanic origins.
I don't hate it I just think the fact it has the English words "honk" and "ball" in it when you squint is really funny
Have you seen all the shit the people of my Germanic origins have done? I'll distance myself from that as much as humanly possible thank you very much
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Wait until you hear Afrikaans...
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oh yeah, it's basically a historical accident that dutch isnt just another low german dialect
Yes, but also Honkbal is very fitting name for that game.
Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads wrote a song about it:
https://youtu.be/bfAEty_YZYQ
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Norwegian rather than Dutch, but there's a grocery store chain called MENY that's advertising its single bananas with a sign that reads "SINGEL MEN LIKE GOD" — meaning "single but just as good"
I was also at the library the other day, and I couldn't help but wonder how a monolingual anglophone would react to the section signs looking like
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←FАG — FАG→ — ←FАG — FАG→ — ←FАG — FАG BARN→
In other words "nonfiction" and "nonfiction, children"
And I apologize to our screenreader using comrades for any inconvenience that may have come from replacing Latin A with Cyrillic A, I was just worried that the slur filter would censor the word.
What, don't you want to see the eighteen naked cowboys in the showers?
Lmao what Dutch sounds like to English ears is what English sounds like to everybody else. Glass houses and all that
I've got a buddy who spent some time in southern Africa, and his Afrikaans impression always cracks me up. He says Afrikaaner men especially sound like angry vikings talking with mouthfuls of shit