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   MagicLike 🏳️‍🌈 (magiclike@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 02:36:53 JST MagicLike 🏳️‍🌈

   How can you take dutch seriously if speed means "snelheid" :neocat_lul:

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     MagicLike 🏳️‍🌈 (magiclike@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 02:36:50 JST MagicLike 🏳️‍🌈

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     @ClipHead I love Germanic languages for just gluing words together (except for english it it is the outsider) :neocat_lul:

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     ClipHead (cliphead@social.cologne)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 02:36:52 JST ClipHead

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     I love "bromfiets".

     It's a fiets that makes brom!

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     Sigma (sigmasternchen@comfy.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 02:37:12 JST Sigma

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     @MagicLike@mstdn.social Oh, interesting. Really similar to German:
     "Schnellheit". ("schnell" means "fast" or "speedy". And "-heit" makes it a noun that describes the state of being speedy.)
     Though, I'd have translated it as "fastness". The more common translation for "speed" is "Geschwindigkeit" ("geschwind" means "quick" - from "schwinden", meaning "to disappear" - and "-keit" makes is a noun that describes speed as a measurable thing). I wonder what the Dutch version would be...

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     MagicLike 🏳️‍🌈 (magiclike@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 02:37:50 JST MagicLike 🏳️‍🌈

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     @joshix although "Schnelligkeit" is only in selected cases correct, but according to Wiktionary "snelheit" is actually althochdeutsch, so the dutchies just switched out the t for a d :neocat_think_owo:

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     Joshix (joshix@fosspri.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 02:37:52 JST Joshix

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     @MagicLike it's almost the same as „Schnellheit“ in German