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The Awful German Language (1880)

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187 points nalinidash | 1 comments | 16 May 25 04:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.241s | source
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chilldsgn ◴[16 May 25 06:07 UTC] No.44002271[source]▶
I absolutely love German, it is one of my favourite languages, there's such beauty in it. I am not a native speaker, but enjoy studying it. I am a native Afrikaans speaker and I see so many similarities between the two, which I find intriguing.
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bradley13 ◴[16 May 25 06:13 UTC] No.44002292[source]▶
Don't tell the people in the Netherlands and Belgium, but Dutch is a German dialect with pretensions, and Afrikaans is a Dutch dialect, so...
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chilldsgn ◴[16 May 25 07:06 UTC] No.44002544[source]▶
Yep. I find it easier to understand German verbally than Dutch. I struggle when Dutch people speak to me, the way they pronounce words are hard on my ears. German feels softer.
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melvinroest ◴[16 May 25 07:28 UTC] No.44002669[source]▶
Native Dutch speaker here. I find German softer on the ears too.

Except for Dutch in the South (Belgians and South NL), that's soft on my ears too. But not my accent, we are descendants of monsters. Why otherwise would we pronounce the G the way that we do?

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1. hengheng ◴[16 May 25 11:52 UTC] No.44004267[source]▶
https://youtube.com/shorts/oNv7SBY32a8

Yes, yes you are.