r/lovethissmug • u/RespUnin • 15h ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 I love these Dutch posts

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It's like if someone went to a business conference but only spoke through Doge memes

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u/oogrug 15h ago edited 15h ago

dutch orthography looks "silly" to non-dutch speaking anglophones because, among other things, multiple words are close enough to english that they read like misspellings (serieus, kan, probleem) or slang (dat dat). then there are words whose spellings don't make intuitive sense to many anglophones (mbt). and while people who read dutch know that oo and ee represent /oː/ and /eː/, many anglophones read them as /uː/ and /i/; importantly, when oo and ee function as digraphs in english, the words often feel silly, cute, or otherwise unserious (poop, boob, goo; pee, wee, bee)

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u/Nigel2602 12h ago

To be fair, mbt is an abbreviation for 'met betrekking tot' (Wilders even spelled it wrong, it should be m.b.t.). Spelling a full word like that wouldn't make sense in Dutch either.

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u/LaunchTransient 11h ago

Wilders even spelled it wrong

Twitter had a character limit of 140 characters (though when Wilders posted this the limit was up to 280), which encouraged people to cut superfluous punctuation. I can only imagine that is the reason.

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u/a-stack-of-masks 9h ago

Nah ink is duur fam. aint nobody got time or budget for interpunctie.

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u/brofishmagikarp 3h ago

Het is inderdaad duur fam, hebben we korting voor nodig