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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 05:57:13 JST Adrianna Tan

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   @being I was once in a KLM flight and a Taiwanese person asked me what they were saying in English. They were alarmed they didn’t understand them at all and thought their English comprehension was bad, but actually it was just Dutch

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     Ornella (being@social.ornella.xyz)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 05:57:18 JST Ornella

     Its genuinely surprising to me that Dutch people don't seem to realize how close Dutch is to English. When I suggest this to a Dutch person, I am usually met with resistance? They say it is more like German, which I don't disagree with, but it's also very close to English obviously

     Idk, I feel like French people are very aware that our language is close to Spanish or Italian. It's not an insult or anything! Language families are a thing