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OlemGolem
Omdat het leuk is.
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Lachig, hoor
zeusfdelta
High Valerian is Stuffy and Borin, It’s the Low Valerian where they Action’s At。。。
ElbowDeepInLeBronsPuzzy
im learning this language called "Intermediate English" which im pretty sure is just 3 different languages in a trench coat
topaz342
Sounds about right. High English is more like 5-6.
JBRPong
How dare you!
IceWeaselX
BubblesTheFish
They're real languages though.
rubypilgrim
Language is fascinating - the town of Booneville in Northern California created its own language, called "Boont." In the run-up to the US Civil War, American English, particularly in the South, became so highly coded that it was close to becoming a separate language. Same words, different meanings and uses. We're seeing this coding separation now. Conservatives often capitalize words in sentences, like "They Hate Everything!" In China, Nüshu is a language specific to women.
FarceMajeure
A Møøse once bit my sister ... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"
cousteau
Fun fact: while Norwegian was invented as a joke for the opening credits of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it has evolved so much it is now a proper language spoken in a whole country.
madjo
The Dutch like to curse with horrible diseases like typhoid and cancer, don’t mess with us!
Subsound
Every year, 1 in 6 children are abducted by the Dutch.
SideshowBobsotheravatar
I recall a story from way back where a couple met at some gathering in Europe, a science convention I think, where neither spoke the others language but both spoke Klingon. Fell in love and continued with the Klingon for three or so months. Not sure if its real but I really liked the vibe of the story
Kbantar
I've heard a couple stories like that. Nerds gonna nerd even when out of their home nation.
DemonKysho
faphappyscreencappy
Is it just me, or was there something particularly asshole-ish about talking smack about the Federation *while* settling down to to a big ol' meal platter and bottle that their replicator provided you?
SnoiD
As a Dutch speaking Belgian, I hate that ‘Dutch’ is associated with, well, the Dutch. It’s our language too! We could say Flemish or even Flemspeak, Flemsch, Fleman, or Flembourgish, but it ain’t gunna catch on 🙄
LenneSamunai
As a dutch, when i hear some.one speak norse or swedish or danish im like; hmhmhmhm....wait a minute i dont understand shit! It feels like dutch but it totally isn't.
Also... I'm better at english than at dutch grammarwise. It sucks ass
cosonfused
More importantly, why is it the wrong flag for the Netherlands?
CyberHexx
Klingon may be an artificial language, but it is a real language. Same with Tolkien's Dwarvish and Elvish.
Crispy4Skin
Thats not the dutch flag, it's the flag of Luxembourg. The Dutch flag has a dark blue band at the bottom.
cousteau
Maybe they took the photo with flash
sybertear
Because while they may have been constructed for fantasy worlds, the authors went through painstaking effort to *invent a full language* and people like it!
Invented doesn’t mean *not real*
Alozar
I was under the impression that high Valyrian isn't actually fleshed out enough to be a full conlang. I remember when it first hit Duolingo it was kind of controversial.
Callynd
George certainly didn't put in the work to make it so. I don't know if the producers of the show got anyone to do it. The fact that they don't have Quenya makes me a bit sad.
rshini
Pfft look at the last season, the idiots didn't even have a writer's room, and put a real baby on a block of ice, they ain't got the brains to make or hire out someone to make a conlang
RedCamaro
This post dishonors your house
slinkiisu
I CAN LEARN KLINGON?
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!!
topaz342
Google doesn't translate!
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
lo'laHbe'!! puj nejmeH laHlIj.
Randomice
As a Dutch person: Klingon is a real language! Artificial perhaps, but still real.
SquashDemon
Don't you lie to me, I know the Dutch aren't real.
Elkarlo77
I am reading Shakespear in the original Langueage ! (Yes some friends gave it to me as a Birthday Gift.)
CommunCreator
No less real than Esperanto. What was that one that Tolkien invented? Qualinesti? I bet those are in there, too.
ViperMD
As a Trekkie, god damn right it is.
coughingintensifies
Cholera aan jou
en je huis
DemSumBigAssRidges
One of my favorite lil love stories is how two people met at some convention or something and didn't speak each other's native language, so they spoke to each other in Klingon.
ThisNameUnavailable
Aren't all languages technically artificial?
DdCno1
No. Most languages just evolved naturally (and are still evolving), without anyone having designed them. Artificial languages are created as a whole, sometimes from scratch. There is one language that is both, modern-day Hebrew, an old language that was extinct as a spoken and written language (it was only used as a sacred language), but successfully revived around the beginning of the 20th century. It's a very interesting phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language
ThisNameUnavailable
Right but designed =\= created. Technically all languages are created by humans.
FallenWyvern
Body language isn't. Animals communicate by scent, movement, sound, and in some cases, brilliant visual displays of light.
We know dolphins and whales communicate vocally over vast distances. Humans didn't teach them that.
Although we can take credit for helping cats develop a language they use exclusively with us.
ThisNameUnavailable
Fuck ok thats true, you got me!
StephenDaniels
Latin is some made up BS designed to make life miserable for students. I'm thinking the Romans spoke Italian.
scissorxmextimbers
prufock
And no Bangla, despite being the 7th-most spoken language in the world.
drousnavat
If they had a draconic language from Skyrim I would hit that shit every day
flyingmonkeystick
Alduin sounds so smooth and powerful.
InfocalypseRising
Don't lie you'd just be FUS RO DAH'ing fools off high places like the rest of us
drousnavat
I would wanna test some of them, yes. Specifically I want to be able to use Clear Skies
EdelwoodHikes
Every language is made up.
LeekofLegend
Ha! Truth 🤷
Neuronyx
YOU'RE made up.
genericanamoly
Yeah for real. Don't see duolingo doing much ASL
TheN8
Every time I see ASL I forget about the communication needs of deaf Americans and my brain goes straight to Age/Sex/Location - fuck me if that isn't a Pavlovian response.
KirbyUOR
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1MGRwbnFkbzFleWxucmVtMzIzcDBqaWg0Mmdqd2RxYWV2azZiNzBwYSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/qWoubkSvQxN1C/200w.webp
Sebastopol140
teardropivyyearofthetiger
Looking for this comment
EndlingGer
FYI, in the German dub he is ranting about the Belgians.
SnoiD
As a Belgian, rightfully so
Sebastopol140
SalmonTheWise
Does he specify if he's focusing on the Flemish or the Walloons?
EndlingGer
As far as I remember, no. Which of those are living closer to the Dutch border? Implicitly he would mean those.
SnoiD
That would be the Flems
InfocalypseRising
I've read that they've made up enough Klingon that you can actually use it as a functional language. There's even a production of Hamlet entirely in Klingon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Klingon_Hamlet
EggFooYung
I got my mother (a now-retired english and spanish teacher) the print version for Christmas one year.
zombiejedediah
Let me guess - everyone dies?
zylokun
Its Shakespeare what else would you expect?
Doefke
On a good day
gablestout
bIlaH. tlhIngan Hol jatlhchu'laHbogh nuvpu' vISov, 'ej ja'chuqtaH chaH. 'InternetDaq tlhIngan HolDaq 'e'nglIS Holvo' mughwI'mey tu'laH je.
NZSheeps
It's true, they can
CarInAVet
There's an internet story about two Trekkies meeting at an international convention communicating in Klingon for the first few months of their relationship. They later got married.
3Davideo
I remember a similar issue where somebody had to communicate about a medical issue, but due to language barriers the only language they had in common was ultimately Klingon.
rshini
One I read was a guy getting a door-to-door salesman and spoke in Klingon to try to scare him off... only to find he also spoke Klingon and ended up dating and marrying.
Buncha gay nerds
WilliamKeith
You have not truly experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
DarthPiette
To be, or not...
To be.
I love that movie so much.
timun2
taH pagh, taHbe'...
gablestout
swedeonamoose
Dutch sounds like if a swede was trying to speak english and german at the same time.
umbrellamaker
With something stuck in their throat
Sebastopol140
That's pretty much what it is.
bezobzira
I'm learning german. My german boss says I speak excellent dutch
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
NationofSchrad
Ongezellig!
drhorseturd
My german teachers always said it was German with a learning disability and a mouth full of peanut butter
siegfriedwatson
That is exactly what Dutch is. To quote my Dutch friend. "Klingon is an actual language someone designed. The others are fake nonsense moonspeak." hahaha
CallMeCourierSix
As a son of Dutch immigrants: yep.
jayman0123
ngl, I'm really tired and read that as "as a son of a bitch immigrants: yep" and I was like WHAT!?
CallMeCourierSix
I mean, my parents are horrifically abusive pieces of shit that are protecting my rapist brother, soooooo....
jayman0123
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Dutch is german on weed.
WackyWavingInflatableArmFlailingTubman
Geef me un klaap papa
Hoiloidl
Die Huren waren nuttig.
Firestart3r
Dutch is german if you order languages from wish.
rizzenvoth
BdrLen
More like a Norwegian. Norwegian is like Swedish except you need to smile when you speak it, just like Dutch.
Nuggetti
Dutch is to German what Danish is to Swedish.
ModsSometimesHeedMyScamWarnings
Now Afrikaans is that... But when you're a functioning alcoholic.
Noahbalboa82
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1c3NmbW4xYjc3cmg4OGNiZ3BxdmFxaDRheWNzNHhud2Y3YWxieHJtZyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/VMO6qeIbr7JRLnLTGw/200w.webp
rizzenvoth
As a Dutch guy living in Sweden this is very funny and true! xD
Mistruths
English sounds like a shouting match between a German speaker and a Dutch speaker but both are choking on baguettes.
Marsupialmessiah
Bagettes with mantequilla and some halal attached lol
HelikaformerNubisKnight9
Thought that were just the Texans?
SparkyShowers
As someone who's trying to learn Dutch, don't forget that it sounds like throat cancer too.
superdinglebudgie
It comes from sharing some commonalities with Yiddish in addition to German and English.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Swiss-German enters the chat....
DdCno1
I thought that was Danish.
InitHello
Danish is someone with half a half-baked potato stuck in their throat trying to speak German and Norwegian at the same time.
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
That's only the way the Dutch speak it. Flemish, the variant (dialect, if you want) of Dutch we speak in Belgium, has way less of that "back of the throat", nasally feel/sound to it.
siegfriedwatson
Geen probleem hier. Hehehehe.
Fisicboy
We do mix in cancer where we can yes
Swiggy1957
That's because they mix Yiddish in there
gronzilla
Only in Amsterdam (or at least, significantly more)
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
En ook fraans… en spaans…
Leonon
LincLoud
.
Noahbalboa82
Please stop!
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Blease
Noahbalboa82
Dammit. Auto-correct.
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Godver
madjo
Aka drunk Danish
ChristosMylordos
Isn't danish drunk danish?
swedeonamoose
no that is just mumbling with a mouth full of potatos
Leucienweaver
Mexico built the wall the mornin' after that happened, hah.
AlwaysUpvotesCatgirls
I call it Shortbus German.
machine9
Swamp German is the preferred term
mechscientist
That's Flemish you are thinking of.
InitHello
I thought Flemish was drunk Dutch.