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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 5w
I overheard what I thought was really weird Dutch in the airport earlier this week and asked him what dialect of Dutch it was. It was Afrikaans -- not Dutch but derived from it. It was so cool to hear...
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I had the same in a restaurant once! It was really confusing to my brain to hear something that sounds like a language I speak but not to understand, it felt like a glitch. I used to have the same hearing Portuguese and Catalán, as well, they both sounded like "Spanish except I can't understand".
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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqctrpnjgyttgg9p7u9atn2g5yhev2dsz0ddwwhts02473zp4la48snj3wft yes! I don't speak hardly any Dutch at all but I know the sound of it. Meanwhile, Swiss German may as well not be German at all. It sounds like trying to speak German underwater.