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Cheeky nandos (lemmy.nz)

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[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

sketti and meatballs

Neither do the yanks!

[-] lenuup@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

as the only ones capable of proper English, the English language is passed on to the Dutch.

[-] J92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The might as well take English. They just sound drunk when they speak their own language.

(To Germans...apparently)

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

That one was always weird to me as a native German speaker. Dutch has very prominent sounds (mostly the G) that aren't really present in standard German or English that remind me much more of sore throat or coughing than being drunk.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's redneck speak, not Yankee speak. Yanks say things like "fuggetabout it", and "Hey! I'm wolkin' 'ere!"
Rednecks are mostly confined to the South-Eastern part of the country. Yanks are in the Northeast. Most Americans are neither Yanks nor Rednecks.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yep. We're 50 countries in a trench coat. We have about a dozen dialects, many occasionally incomprehensible to others. My favorite example of this is "finnabouttabe."

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

The English language itself is like nine languages in a trench coat. It's mainly German/Dutch & French, with some sprinkling of Latin and various other romantic languages.