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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This "cuck" is probably an anglicism.

Also, the barrier between English and Dutch is pretty flimsy.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't speak dutch and this is very clear. Is that what dutch is? English but like a 4yo is talking

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

I've heard it described as "a drunk British sailor trying to speak German".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You mean something that sounds dumb in English also sounds dumb in Dutch? Wow!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I wish the Dutch would respect my barriers more.

[–] pastermil 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know, a few hundred years ago, they respect the barriers even less.

Especially to their colonies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A few hundred years ago, their language was a German dialect!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't every language start as a dialect?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Possibly, but the distinction here is that the differentiation of Dutch and German didn't happen that long ago, and this would be a lot more obvious if the German dialects that are closest to Dutch weren't nearly dead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We only respect water barriers.

[–] pastermil 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Clearly, you've never heard of the Dutch East India Company

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The "VOC" is standard material in history class.

What Thekingoflorda is referring to is flood control in the Netherlands.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Dutch invented the cuck-chair confirmed.

[–] pastermil 18 points 1 month ago

Cuck-stool

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Translates to "yess, The cuck chair is still available"

Though I think it's actually for sitting next to a wheelchair bound companion, or to sit while holding your bike out of the way of the aisle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Thank you, because I had no idea what the hell that sentence was saying. It turns out that not everything transcends languages. Understanding what words mean is actually pretty fucking important.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always assumed that they're that way because a second chair would block the door.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, you may be right. I saw some trains in NL have upper sections, and the last row before the stairwell will have just one chair to give people space to negotiate it. So that could be it as well

[–] pastermil 2 points 1 month ago

Thought it means: "yesss, the cuck chair is now free!"