(Screenshot of a social media post, user posting an image of Jar Jar Binks with a speech bubble for the post replied to. Post is from a Dutch politician stating "We hebben een serieus probleem met de politieke ontwikkelingen mbt de dwangwet en ik hoop dat dat de komende dagen kan worden opgelost. ")

Also, who can forget this favorite

(Screenshot of a translator app.
English: spank me daddy.
Dutch: geef me een klap papa)

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
    35·
    18 hours ago

    I’m Deutsch and to me Dutch sounds really funny. Even a harmless word like “ontwikkelingen”. Not to speak of “Grachten” (said correctly), Pindakaas and Poffertjes. Lekker! I wonder if the opposite applies, too.

    BTW, Geert Wilders deserves all the ridicule he gets, and more.

    • RadicalCandour@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      I lived in The Netherlands in 08-10 with my German boyfriend at the time and this just make me giggle because I completely understand this all these years later lol

      • jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        I disagree. This is a common stereotype, but if you actually listen to Germans talk it feels quite a bit softer

          • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            14 hours ago

            Flemish sounds funny?

            Jullie klinken alsof je constant rochelt terwijl je praat.

            Flemish is so much softer, and quite a bit of vocabulary is different, which could lead to confusing situations.

            • sepiroth154@feddit.nlEnglish
              3·
              12 hours ago

              I completely agree with everything else you said but you call “fucking” “shitting” and that’s just hilarious.

              • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                5 hours ago

                Except we don’t. There’s a very distinct length in the “oe” sounds. Short is fucking, long is pooping. It’s like the difference between “e” and “ee”.

                Try to pronounce it with these e sounds, then replace them with the oe sounds. That’s the difference.

    • HeavenlySpoon@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      5·
      18 hours ago

      Can’t speak for the Netherlands, but here in Belgium the first thing anyone thinks of when you speak German is the war. I know I’m not supposed to mention it…

      That being said, German usually sounds like angry Dutch to us, so I guess we both agree on where we are on the funny-angry spectrum.

      Also, most of your examples are more common in the Netherlands, which are definitely further along the funny axis.

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        But here in Belgium…

        Forgive my ignorance, isn’t there a large portion of your countrymen that speak German as one of their primary languages?

        • HeavenlySpoon@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          9·
          17 hours ago

          It’s a small part on the German border which we got as compensation for WWI. It has a population of roughly 80.000 people, less than 1% of the Belgian population. The two main languages are Dutch (60ish %) and French (40ish %), but German is technically a national language.

          I suspect that people in Flanders encounter way more Germans than German-speaking Belgians.