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[-] smeg@feddit.uk 8 points 10 months ago

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!"

[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

First time I heard Dutch I thought I was having a stroke.

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