r/lovethissmug • u/RespUnin • 16h 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/a_demon_from_hell 15h ago

As someone who is Dutch I hate these memes because I simply cannot comprehend what's so funny about any of this 😭

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u/Solnight99 9h ago

English has the same heritage as Dutch on one side, but all of the "sophisticated" words are Latin-derived through French, so Dutch looks similar to English without the Latin. Also, the spelling is similar to English, but in the same way that English gibberish (different languages have different gibberish) is similar to English, so it looks funny.

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u/Methanator 8h ago

despite the many French (and North Germanic) influences on English, it is still a West Germanic language. So English has the same heritage as Dutch on both sides

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u/Solnight99 8h ago

If we're being that technical, languages don't have "sides" like people. I explained it that way because it makes more sense to a layman.

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u/Methanator 7h ago

indeed they do not, your explanation suggests that English is only part Western Germanic though, and that is not right