You gonna get fraped.

UNAUTHORIZED FINGER: It wasn't "frape" frape.

Gilligann: Do they all have marbles in their mouth?

I visited friends in Holland, and I discovered that if you ask anyone if they speak English, if they answer "a little", you can carry on a conversation with them. If they reply "yes", they will correct your English. And they'll be right.

That's the truth. Just about everyone I spoke to in Holland spoke English well enough that I thought I was speaking to an educated American for a split second.

Stantz: Actually, all European languages derive from Latin, which is why it's still taught in some select English schools. If you're fluent in Latin, learning every other European language is easier than learning from scratch.

It must be a hard life being so crushingly wrong.

kobrakai: UNAUTHORIZED FINGER: It wasn't "frape" frape.

Gilligann: Do they all have marbles in their mouth?

I visited friends in Holland, and I discovered that if you ask anyone if they speak English, if they answer "a little", you can carry on a conversation with them. If they reply "yes", they will correct your English. And they'll be right.

That's the truth. Just about everyone I spoke to in Holland spoke English well enough that I thought I was speaking to an educated American for a split second.



Please, don't bring them down to our level.

"Little girl's room"

Dildo and condom

Uhhhhhh...

pudding7: "What the fark is this?" sounds the same in German and English?

If you speak German and English you can understand Dutch with very few problems

Though whenever someone speaks Dutch to me, I respond in a mixture of Dutch and German."Ik hab geen ahnung wo deine Kuh is" U.S.W .

I wonder what George frape frape Martin would think of this video.

If the little brother was really cool he'd just go with it for a while. A real man could live with purple and pink walls and have fun with it.

Never trust the Dutch.

I see it

Terrible

haemaker: Stantz: Actually, all European languages derive from Latin, which is why it's still taught in some select English schools. If you're fluent in Latin, learning every other European language is easier than learning from scratch.

Except for English, Dutch and German, the three languages discussed here and also Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Irish, etc. etc. Thanks for playing.



Danke schön. Ever notice how 'danke' is a hell of a lot closer to thanks than 'gratias'? Hahaha.

I love the dutch language, wish I spoke it. Which is sort of stupid because it's pretty much the easiest language an English speaker can learn... It ditches a lot of the weird syntax bullshiat in German. I used to have a lot of dutch friends, and it seems like basically just word substitution. You can pretty much read the shiat most of the time.

hardyz1: "Little girl's room"

Dildo and condom

Uhhhhhh...

I thought it was a nice touch.

bad touch??

saintwrathchild: O_o

Welcome to the internet
L O_o K it up

12349876: Titanius Anglesmith: pudding7: "What the fark is this?" sounds the same in German and English?

I think it's Dutch, not German. Either way, was surprised to hear it sound exactly like English as well.

You do know all three are part of the Germanic language family, right?

And your point is?

/Pretentious farker is pretentious. Farkingly so.

seelorq: 12349876: Titanius Anglesmith: pudding7: "What the fark is this?" sounds the same in German and English?

I think it's Dutch, not German. Either way, was surprised to hear it sound exactly like English as well.

You do know all three are part of the Germanic language family, right?

And your point is?

/Pretentious farker is pretentious. Farkingly so.

They have a common heritage and many words and phrases that sound similar.

/dumbass farker is dumbass. dumbassingly so

Aeonic_Blue: haemaker: Stantz: Actually, all European languages derive from Latin, which is why it's still taught in some select English schools. If you're fluent in Latin, learning every other European language is easier than learning from scratch.

Except for English, Dutch and German, the three languages discussed here and also Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Irish, etc. etc. Thanks for playing.

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Danke schön. Ever notice how 'danke' is a hell of a lot closer to thanks than 'gratias'? Hahaha.

I love the dutch language, wish I spoke it. Which is sort of stupid because it's pretty much the easiest language an English speaker can learn... It ditches a lot of the weird syntax bullshiat in German. I used to have a lot of dutch friends, and it seems like basically just word substitution. You can pretty much read the shiat most of the time.

You should learn to be gracious, it'd probably be more gratifying?

Germanic languages are best for writing how to manuals while the romance languages are better for getting laid. 

English can do both which is why it's Earth Basic.

Titanius Anglesmith: pudding7: "What the fark is this?" sounds the same in German and English?

I think it's Dutch, not German. Either way, was surprised to hear it sound exactly like English as well.

It was English. The Dutch and the Flemish tend to borrow a lot of English phrases.

SearchN: UNAUTHORIZED FINGER: It wasn't "frape" frape.

Gilligann: Do they all have marbles in their mouth?

I visited friends in Holland, and I discovered that if you ask anyone if they speak English, if they answer "a little", you can carry on a conversation with them. If they reply "yes", they will correct your English. And they'll be right.

That was my experience as well when I went there.

CSB: The barkeep was a blast. He thought 4 double shots of Vodak was a bit much. He didn't realize I was coming from 5000 feet up down to sea level.

Another good thing is they like Americans. They remember that our Airborne troops parachuted into Holland to fight the Boche. I have a cocktail shaker that was given to me by a Dutch bartender after he found out I was in the Army. If I'd have been with the 82nd or 101st Airborne, I think he'd have let me sleep with his sister. :)

Stahi: On another note, I did get a chuckle when he points out that "It's really well done, too.."

That almost made me choke on my cheerios

Aeonic_Blue: haemaker: Stantz: Actually, all European languages derive from Latin, which is why it's still taught in some select English schools. If you're fluent in Latin, learning every other European language is easier than learning from scratch.

Except for English, Dutch and German, the three languages discussed here and also Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Irish, etc. etc. Thanks for playing.

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Danke schön. Ever notice how 'danke' is a hell of a lot closer to thanks than 'gratias'? Hahaha.

I love the dutch language, wish I spoke it. Which is sort of stupid because it's pretty much the easiest language an English speaker can learn... It ditches a lot of the weird syntax bullshiat in German. I used to have a lot of dutch friends, and it seems like basically just word substitution. You can pretty much read the shiat most of the time.

My parents spoke German around the house when I was toddler, until I started picking it up, but we still use small bits of it for very simple expressions a child might use, such as "That's so sad," "It doesn't matter to me," "Come here right now," "It's warm," and "Turn off the light." (Don't ask me to supply the actual German. I never studied it myself, so I can't read or write it worth a damn.) Maybe because of this, I'm a little weirded out when I hear spoken German. It sounds to me like I *should* understand it, and sometimes I feel like I almost do.

Dutch, meanwhile, sounds to me like actual English, spoken with an extremely thick accent. And sometimes I *do* understand it, even though I've never studied it. My father tells me that this is because the main body of the Germanic core of English derives from Plattdeutsche -- so-called 'Low German'. (Literally, "flat German," the dialects of the the low, flat north country. Dutch is a more direct relative of the same. So it seems English is actually more closely related to Dutch than modern mainline German (Hochdeutsche, 'High German'), which underwent a consonant shift after the split that Plattdeutsche did not, making modern German even more remote to modern English than it was in the distant past. Dutch uses mostly German vocabulary and word order, but from what I've read is grammatically more similar to English, in that it doesn't adhere to some of the more complex and confusing rules of Hochdeutsche that are confusing to English speakers.

Happily for any anglophile who's also studied any Romance language (which hopefully is all of you), Dutch has borrowed more Romance vocabulary even than English. So if you've got English down (you do, don't you?), and you've studied any modern Romance language, then learning Dutch should be a cinch.

Hal5423: Titanius Anglesmith: pudding7: "What the fark is this?" sounds the same in German and English?

I think it's Dutch, not German. Either way, was surprised to hear it sound exactly like English as well.

It was English. The Dutch and the Flemish tend to borrow a lot of English phrases.

According to someone further up the thread who ostensibly knows Dutch, it's actually modern Dutch, and practically identical to the English, with only one loanword -- f*ck -- that's apparently a very common loanword (because it's more forceful-sounding than any Dutch or German equivalents). I find that explanation plausible.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Hal5423: Titanius Anglesmith: pudding7: "What the fark is this?" sounds the same in German and English?

I think it's Dutch, not German. Either way, was surprised to hear it sound exactly like English as well.

It was English. The Dutch and the Flemish tend to borrow a lot of English phrases.

According to someone further up the thread who ostensibly knows Dutch, it's actually modern Dutch, and practically identical to the English, with only one loanword -- f*ck -- that's apparently a very common loanword (because it's more forceful-sounding than any Dutch or German equivalents). I find that explanation plausible.


Is this still going on? Good morning Saturday farkers.

40 pound box of frape.

12349876: seelorq: 12349876: Titanius Anglesmith: pudding7: "What the fark is this?" sounds the same in German and English?

I think it's Dutch, not German. Either way, was surprised to hear it sound exactly like English as well.

You do know all three are part of the Germanic language family, right?

And your point is?

/Pretentious farker is pretentious. Farkingly so.

They have a common heritage and many words and phrases that sound similar.

/dumbass farker is dumbass. dumbassingly so

Apparently you missed my point, which was that I think it just might be possible that it's common knowledge around here that the languages mentioned are related. Maybe. So it's not necessary to ask the question in such a manner that you expect the questioned to know it, yet at the same time assume s/he was too stupid to remember it. Right?

/And why do you hate 5 so much??? ;)

You had me at vibrator.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Aeonic_Blue: haemaker: Stantz: Actually, all European languages derive from Latin, which is why it's still taught in some select English schools. If you're fluent in Latin, learning every other European language is easier than learning from scratch.

Except for English, Dutch and German, the three languages discussed here and also Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Irish, etc. etc. Thanks for playing.

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Danke schön. Ever notice how 'danke' is a hell of a lot closer to thanks than 'gratias'? Hahaha.

I love the dutch language, wish I spoke it. Which is sort of stupid because it's pretty much the easiest language an English speaker can learn... It ditches a lot of the weird syntax bullshiat in German. I used to have a lot of dutch friends, and it seems like basically just word substitution. You can pretty much read the shiat most of the time.

My parents spoke German around the house when I was toddler, until I started picking it up, but we still use small bits of it for very simple expressions a child might use, such as "That's so sad," "It doesn't matter to me," "Come here right now," "It's warm," and "Turn off the light." (Don't ask me to supply the actual German. I never studied it myself, so I can't read or write it worth a damn.) Maybe because of this, I'm a little weirded out when I hear spoken German. It sounds to me like I *should* understand it, and sometimes I feel like I almost do.

Dutch, meanwhile, sounds to me like actual English, spoken with an extremely thick accent. And sometimes I *do* understand it, even though I've never studied it. My father tells me that this is because the main body of the Germanic core of English derives from Plattdeutsche -- so-called 'Low German'. (Literally, "flat German," the dialects of the the low, flat north country. Dutch is a more direct relati ...

Interesting story! I studied German through high school and undergrad and spent a bit of time there studying. Unfortunately it isn't part of my day to day life anymore so I sort of have those moments when I hear it and it sounds so familiar that I feel like I should understand it (and know I did at one time), but I don't. Frustrating stuff.

I did spend about a year learning Dutch as well. Knowing English and German made it super easy to pick up. I haven't learned any Romance languages so I can't speak to how it helps. My impression has been that the loan words from French, Spanish, or Latin often times have a cognate in English so I didn't find my lack of Romance language knowledge a major hindrance in picking up the Dutch. Calling on my German and English and minimal Dutch training, I can read newspapers and books with little need to consult my woordenboek. Speaking and hearing it are different stories.

With me, I can either always understand a word if it's written down or spoken, rarely both. So I could watch a dutch film with subtitles on and understand it perfectly fine. But if I read a book, or watch a movie without them, I only pick up half of it.

I think words either sound English or German or are spelled Englishy or Germanish

This is wonderful

He is not going to change the room because he sounded kinda gay hehe

it is dutch yes.

indarwinsshadow: I was feeling pretty shiatty smitty. Friend of mine has been diagnosed with Leukemia, people I've known for the past 8 years moved out from next door, and I got my tax installment bill today. I felt like shiat. Then I saw this video and I laughed my ass off.
Thanks.
It's the little things that make life go on somedays.

Add somethin' about motherhood and a truck and you'll have yerself a fine song.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: According to someone further up the thread who ostensibly knows Dutch, it's actually modern Dutch, and practically identical to the English, with only one loanword -- f*ck -- that's apparently a very common loanword (because it's more forceful-sounding than any Dutch or German equivalents). I find that explanation plausible.

I can agree with that, but living in a Dutch speaking country I hear these borrowed phrases all the time. For example I constantly hear college students exclaiming "Wat de fark?" It always sounds so close to English, and I know that most of them are relatively fluent in English because none of the movies or tv shows that they watch are dubbed (unlike in France, Germany, Spain, Czech republic etc.) and they are thus constantly exposed to the English language from childhood.

Ich ma schulgen fraven, ba mit so FACEBOOK, bruchenzeffernoog, slobbervotinuk, ksectch INTERNET gushten smaoklen kzabuk TIMELINE, kerfecken frapin not.

Loving the fact that they added a dildo and half a month's worth of birth control

It'll be interesting to see if the hacking community comes up with a new term to replacing hack as it's been abused so heavily in recent years.

Dude, you left your keys in your car, and I relocated it to another lot. Totally hacked, bro! LULZ.

I love Dutch women.

Surprised there haven't been more comments about the weird music tastes of these Dutch people. Does it take 20 years for our music to get over there?

DeathByGeekSquad: It'll be interesting to see if the hacking community comes up with a new term to replacing hack as it's been abused so heavily in recent years.

Then they can come up with a made-up term to describe people who point out the misuse of made-up terms, right?

Iggie: DeathByGeekSquad: It'll be interesting to see if the hacking community comes up with a new term to replacing hack as it's been abused so heavily in recent years.

Then they can come up with a made-up term to describe people who point out the misuse of made-up terms, right?

All terms are made up, you floosinflegger!

reminds me of the mtv show "homewreckers" where ryan dunn would go into some roomates room, and re-decorate it into something effed up, like a dirty bathroom stall


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