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It’s Afrikaans, not Dutch. It’s close though. We can understand written Afrikaans.

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For non-speakers, it’s kind of like reading Scots as a monolingual English speaker. https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid

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Did they ever fix the issue that an American teen used a hilariously bad interpretation of the Scots language to write thousands of articles on the Scots wiki?

https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-american-teenager.html

https://old.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/ive_discovered_that_almost_every_single_article/

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Only partially, unfortunately. There aren’t a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now. It’s an endangered language.

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Funny. If you say the words out loud they’re much easier to understand.

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It’s like reading a Nac Mac Feegle speaking.

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That explains the neutral tone. It’s something important far away.

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Also that newspaper is called “The Fatherland”.

It’s a pretty good hint of where they stand in the whole Left-Right political spectrum.

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Which is super weird in it self. I mean, do South African white people call their colonist nation their “Fatherland”?

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Well, the Union of South Africa were participants in the war against Germany, so that’s still a bit weird. Don’t know about the affiliation of the magazine in question, but the support for joining the allies wasn’t clear cut, but only a narrow majority among the ruling white class.

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There was a strong pro-Nazi contingent amongst (mainly) Afrikaans-speaking South Africans. That’s not to say by any stretch that Afrikaners were mostly pro-Nazi, though. Jan Smuts was an Afrikaner and was both a Field Marshal in the South African defence forces and the prime minister during WW2 - he wasn’t exactly pro-British (he fought against them in the second Boer war), but he was very strongly anti-Nazi.

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Yes, just like Americans they think it’s their country and the original inhabitants have no place in their country.

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It’s Afrikaans, not Dutch.

Hitler dood? Lekker bru!

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Would you translate the bold text below the subtitles?

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Alright this is what I understand as a dutchie

Hitler is dead and Dönitz is now the leader in Germany, a British newspaper writes today: “Never before in history has the perspective of peace been so ?? made a possibility of the long war”

The sentence structure is pretty confusing to me and I don’t know some words

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Thanks you beat me to it.

Yeah it’s something like how abrupt the change of prospect is from an extended war to peace.

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Obviously, he’s so dood.

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Crude translation, trying to keep the word order the same.

Hitler’s death and Dönitz 's acceptance of rule in Germany led a British paper to write: “Never before in the history has the prospect of peace so suddenly changed to the possibility of a protracted war.”

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I’m dood.

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Wat nou?

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Pussycat.

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Hi dood, I’m alive

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Fun fact:

In Dutch, two o’s make a long o sound. Dode. “oe” makes the “oo” sound.

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What is “oo” sound if not long o sound? Sorry, not natives englishian.

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Dutch “rood” is pronounced like English “road”.

Dutch “moed” is pronounced like English “mood”.

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This is wild to me as an English speaker.

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Similarly, if a Dutch person ever asks you to “kiss my moist cunt” or (kies mijn mooiste kant), don’t take offence.

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“Look at the sea” in finish (katso merta) means “dick shit” in Italian (cazzo merda).

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I mean if it’s moist I’m doing something right. Right?

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Depends. Is there any money involved?

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I am stealing this.

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That’s not Dutch. Related, Frysian or Afrikaans but not Dutch.

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