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Language

Language is fun.

And often hilarious, because of the mistakes people make with language.
Take the word WIP, for example. A wip in Dutch is both a seesaw and a very brief sexual act. But it is also an abbreviation of Work in Progress, of the latter of which I have many, crochet works.
And so there are countless words that either come out completely wrong, or are quite a laugh....
And I like cryptograms, the descriptions are often so much fun!
And I like poetry, short stories, oneliners ect... One doesn't need many words to say a lot..
Not speaking of the wrong headlines and advertising (signs)....😂
In short; I love language!

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Petra
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Petra
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Language is fun. And languages are. My husband and I love to compare dialect words of everyday items. Or when we travel to the Netherlands we have so much fun with all the Dutch words that are similar to German ones. We think they are so charming and sometimes funny. I sincerely hope that alle the Dutch people who come to Germany enjoy our language as much! I'm learning Spanish and my husband's family is from Sardinia so we compare Spanish and Italian, too. Communication is so fascinating!
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skribe
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skribe
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@jalanchee @happyhippie the Dutch are often labelled 'swamp Germans' for a reason. 🤣
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Wilhelmina58
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@Petra Dutch and German , but also Swedish, Norwegian and English are all in the same language family. Many words are similar to each other. I've been in Germany for a couple of times, Trier, Kassel, Essen, Kleve, Köln, but due to chronical body-things , traveling is too exhausting for me... But still enjoy it in documentaries ect... But I do miss traveling for that matter...
@Petra
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Petra
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I'm sorry to hear about you not being able to travel anymore. I have a chronic illness, too, but so far it's well under control and doesn't affect me that much, I am lucky.
Yes, Swedish - we like watching Swedish TV series on Netflix. It's interesting to see the similarities and differences. But Dutch is much much closer. When we go to the Limburg province we sometimes believe that people there speak Kölsch, our dialect. Because the Limburg dialect is so close, and the "melody" is absolutely similar.
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Wilhelmina58
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Wonderful, isn't it! in a way, we all are of the same "family", And however a small spot on the globe, my country has both a lot of dialects , like any other country, but also officially recognized languages. Frisian and Twents (Low Saxon) are languages, not just dialects. It's very intriguing, I really love to dive into the origins of language...It's so fascinating!
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Wilhelmina58
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@skribe... Hahaha, didn't know this. Countries often give nicknames to each other. Love it!