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by rhowaldt » Fri Sep 11, 2015 4:33 pm
cool, thanks for the info. i love language :)
the English integration in the Dutch language is insane as well, when i think about it. for example, we have no Dutch word for a show. we just use the word "show". same for "manager". and listening to some Dutch hiphop, dude goes "omringd door chicks die willen hangen voor de fame" - that's 2 English words in there. "hangen net als fokking slangen om me heen" - "fokking" is simply the Dutchified version of "fucking". we will use regular "fucking" as an interjection just like that as well (in some parts). and the title of the song is "sukkel voor de liefde", which is bad Dutch, but instead a literal translation from the English, "sucker for love". weird. i suppose it makes sense when you consider the early age at which Dutch people learn English, and i suppose it explains the high level of English in the country - the main reason why my wife never learned to speak Dutch.
which is (since we're fucking rambling anyway - feel like seabiscuit now) another strange thing: i am in an English-speaking relationship, where my wife basically doesn't understand much Dutch. this means that my mind is divided into two worlds: the English world, and the Dutch world. for native English people this is non-existent. they have, for example, every artist that has a worldfamous hit-song, singing in the language they grew up with. there is no such thing as "English music", where there IS such a thing as "Dutch music". it is a strange schism. i write 99% of my poetry and prose in Dutch. my wife will never be able to read some of my most heartfelt shit, simply because she cannot understand the language. it is a strange thing not being able to share your deepest shit with the most significant person in your life. translation only half does it justice. again, again, again: it's strange, and probably incomprehensible for native English speakers.
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