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Also, who can forget this favorite
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English: spank me daddy.
Dutch: geef me een klap papa)
Forgive my ignorance, isn’t there a large portion of your countrymen that speak German as one of their primary languages?
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.