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minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoMy thoughts exactly, if I’m hearing someone speak French then my brain says “that’s a different language”, but Dutch sounds similar enough to English that my brain says “that’s gobbledygook, there’s trickery afoot!”
minus-squareXtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoFirst time I heard Dutch I thought I was having a stroke.
My thoughts exactly, if I’m hearing someone speak French then my brain says “that’s a different language”, but Dutch sounds similar enough to English that my brain says “that’s gobbledygook, there’s trickery afoot!”
First time I heard Dutch I thought I was having a stroke.