• join@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      Be careful insulting the Dutch or there might be a “stabbing party“ (Literal Dutch translation for a knife attack).

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        Me thinking mes aanval

        But then realised steekpartij :D

        Partij like a group of people not like a festive party. That’s like saying the republican party is a festive bunch.

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        We can’t have that. I can’t get into americahalla unless I die of gun violence, being stabbed by a.bunch of people just gets you sent to the eternal city, and my Latin sucks

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      A friend of mine who was learning German was bouncing off words and phrases onto a dutch friend and after comparing the words, she exclaimed “it’s like talking [German] through jello!”