When it comes to Dutch, I’ve always said it’s not the language that’s dumb, it’s the people
Nooo
petition to change the international language to french
Ive seen this before and its still funny. Thanks for making me laugh. And honestly english is not a stupid language, neither is dutch.. Frysian is. No I’m not sorry.
Dutch only sounds stupid because it’s experienced by people used to English.
Their language now being an object of ridicule is one of the better legacies of colonialism.
Dutch is actually good with stuff like this, we regularly update the spelling of words so you don’t get these 600 year old spellings with weird prenounciation.
I still remember in the 1990ies the word pannekoek (pancake) got an extra N and society threw a fitt! Half the pancake houses were were obstinately not updating their signs and shit.
I love English for its simple grammar including its lack of [T-V distinction](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E2%80%93V_distinction) (formal address), as well as not being very gendered compared to many other European languages, but the pronunciation rules are indeed horrible for anyone learning it.
The strength of English is it’s stupidity.
The world’s language is a creole language without any regulator! Hence the chaos.
But yes any language with genders is also… Dumb. Especially German.
This hasn’t convinced me that Dutch isn’t stupid 🤷♂️
After 15 years of living in Switzerland, I’ve mastered French:
“Bon”
“Ben”
“Donc”
“Bah”
“Euuuuuuhhhhh”
Truly a noble language
Yeah, this only really works if you’re not aware that English words are often not pronounced how they’re spelt.
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Yes, because however silly English may be Dutch will always be stupid.
The real joke is on us for learning that stupid language, just so we can communicate with Barry and his special needs children
Ghoti!
We live in the age of stupidity and the language of this age is English.
The further he goes the more sense it makes and the more stupid it sounds
English is dumb Dutch is plain ridiculous.
One is a clown in a circus, the other is a drunk Hobo
Finnish doesn’t have such weakness
We just have a million cases
Auto, auton, autoa, autosta, autolla, autoon, autossa, autolta, autolle, autona, autoksi, autotta, etc
When it comes to Dutch, I’ve always said it’s not the language that’s dumb, it’s the people
Nooo
petition to change the international language to french
Ive seen this before and its still funny. Thanks for making me laugh. And honestly english is not a stupid language, neither is dutch.. Frysian is. No I’m not sorry.
English is basically a Wish version of French.
https://preview.redd.it/ybauo2sm5bud1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c281d7ff5ae870a763170b0bab7eb2018e2776f2
Dutch is not stupid it just sounds horrible
Dutch only sounds stupid because it’s experienced by people used to English.
Their language now being an object of ridicule is one of the better legacies of colonialism.
Dutch is actually good with stuff like this, we regularly update the spelling of words so you don’t get these 600 year old spellings with weird prenounciation.
I still remember in the 1990ies the word pannekoek (pancake) got an extra N and society threw a fitt! Half the pancake houses were were obstinately not updating their signs and shit.
I love English for its simple grammar including its lack of [T-V distinction](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E2%80%93V_distinction) (formal address), as well as not being very gendered compared to many other European languages, but the pronunciation rules are indeed horrible for anyone learning it.
The strength of English is it’s stupidity.
The world’s language is a creole language without any regulator! Hence the chaos.
But yes any language with genders is also… Dumb. Especially German.
This hasn’t convinced me that Dutch isn’t stupid 🤷♂️
After 15 years of living in Switzerland, I’ve mastered French:
“Bon”
“Ben”
“Donc”
“Bah”
“Euuuuuuhhhhh”
Truly a noble language
Yeah, this only really works if you’re not aware that English words are often not pronounced how they’re spelt.