r/lovethissmug • u/RespUnin • 11h 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 11h 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/oogrug 10h ago edited 10h 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/sempowalxochitl 6h ago

Mbt is an abbreviation of “met betrekking tot” which means “with respect to” 

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u/Insidiatori02 1h ago

Regarding - fits way better