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1. Gina (gina@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jun-2022 09:53:29 UTC Gina

   I just had to look up the correct conjugation of a verb in Dutch and I fully understand why expats never bother to learn this ridiculous language. #thenetherlands

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   • Gina (gina@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jun-2022 09:54:16 UTC Gina

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     "Gina why is it 'het boek' ('the book') and 'de boom' ('the tree')?" Yall I don't know none of it makes sense 😂

   • humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jun-2022 09:54:16 UTC humanetech

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     @Gina a friend of mine is Turkish and born in NL she lived only 2.5 years in Turkey from age 3.. that was enough to never get these right again. Also helpfully Dutch folks don't correct you, so you might learn. For the expats who took the effort to learn, but still speak broken sentences, we 'helpfully' switch to English.

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   • Gina (gina@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jun-2022 09:54:17 UTC Gina

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     For the Dutchies amongst us, this was the sentence and the question was whether 'herkend' should be with a t or d: "Deze code wordt toegekend wanneer overmatig optimisme en het nemen van grote risico’s wordt herkend als kenmerk van groupthink."