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<blockquote data-quote="Antje77" data-source="post: 2151452" data-attributes="member: 372207"><p>I wish even one of them worked at my house. I haven't found the trick to dosing for them without spiking before coming down again, unless it's only a couple of stolen bites from a friends bap/barm/bun, so no rolls in my house.</p><p></p><p>Yes, we do have dialects, and one of them (Frisian) is even acknowledged as a language and has it's own grammar rules. But I think when speaking Dutch, and not dialect, we mainly choose the same words for things. Not at all sure, though, it could very well be your funny quirks just stand out more to me because your language is not my own and grasping the subtleties is pretty hard.</p><p></p><p>I had a look at the maps again, and it looks like apart from American English, the English from the London area is favoured in the things I read and hear in the Netherlands, as I'd choose 'dinner', 'tag' and 'roll', and my 'puts' don't rhyme with my 'buts'.</p><p></p><p>Not sure I'm representative of the Dutch in English though. I'm quite comfortable in writing, but speaking English feels utterly embarrassing, as I hardly ever do it. My spoken English is very rusty, and then there's this horrible Dutch accent. The Germans and French at least sound cute in English, the Dutch only laughable <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite15" alt=":bag:" title="Bag :bag:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":bag:" /> </p><p>You can imagine my horror when finding out being elected as a mod involved a one-hour phonecall with DCUKMod for training! (turned out very nice, by the way, and I believe she still takes me seriously even after hearing me talk. Thanks!)</p><p></p><p>Funny thing: In German it's the other way around. I get hot sweats as soon as I have to write it, even so much as a short text message, but happily instruct large groups of people on sailing or tell long stories and bad jokes in a bar/pub/café/whatever you call it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Antje77, post: 2151452, member: 372207"] I wish even one of them worked at my house. I haven't found the trick to dosing for them without spiking before coming down again, unless it's only a couple of stolen bites from a friends bap/barm/bun, so no rolls in my house. Yes, we do have dialects, and one of them (Frisian) is even acknowledged as a language and has it's own grammar rules. But I think when speaking Dutch, and not dialect, we mainly choose the same words for things. Not at all sure, though, it could very well be your funny quirks just stand out more to me because your language is not my own and grasping the subtleties is pretty hard. I had a look at the maps again, and it looks like apart from American English, the English from the London area is favoured in the things I read and hear in the Netherlands, as I'd choose 'dinner', 'tag' and 'roll', and my 'puts' don't rhyme with my 'buts'. Not sure I'm representative of the Dutch in English though. I'm quite comfortable in writing, but speaking English feels utterly embarrassing, as I hardly ever do it. My spoken English is very rusty, and then there's this horrible Dutch accent. The Germans and French at least sound cute in English, the Dutch only laughable :bag: You can imagine my horror when finding out being elected as a mod involved a one-hour phonecall with DCUKMod for training! (turned out very nice, by the way, and I believe she still takes me seriously even after hearing me talk. Thanks!) Funny thing: In German it's the other way around. I get hot sweats as soon as I have to write it, even so much as a short text message, but happily instruct large groups of people on sailing or tell long stories and bad jokes in a bar/pub/café/whatever you call it. [/QUOTE]
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