r/lovethissmug • • 14d ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 Memes that are perfectly understandable even in another language

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u/Monolail031 14d ago

Ah, mutated dutch

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u/hogedrukspuit 14d ago

Yeah and the biiiig difference in this case is that in Dutch you'd use 'wat nu' instead of 'wat nou'. The second option isn't even all that incorrect, it just sounds impolite. Source: am Dutch and used to think this was a pic of a Dutch newspaper (I never read the body text though that's definitely Afrikaans)

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u/Bonfirelily 14d ago

I used to think it was Dutch and the blatant "Wat nou" was unreasonably funny to me.

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u/dutch_mapping_empire 14d ago

i was gonna say, in some parts of the netherlands ''wat nou'' is used commonly but in writing it's ''wat nu'' more often

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u/CreativeAd5332 14d ago

Dutch sounds like drunk German, Afrikaans sounds like drunk Dutch