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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (9 children)

The brits no longer get to claim the English language.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (8 children)

sketti and meatballs

Neither do the yanks!

[–] lenuup@reddthat.com 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] J92@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

(To Germans...apparently)

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 2 days 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.

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