Need Dutch help
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- brtman0
Cassette
Contact
Monitor
Pit
Cent
Platform
Plastic
Race
Park
Cluster
Script
Item
Frame
- Crouwel0
Taxi
Restaurant
Make-up
Model
Cafe
Computer
CD
Radio
Poster
Website
Safari
T-shirt
Fitness
Sport
Tennis
Hockey
Pen
Printer
Camera
Product
Zebra
Hotel
Extra
Design
Motor
Racket
Sweater
Jeans
Busmr_snuggles
(Oct 31 06, 06:34)most of these are english words adopted here.
anyway, people complain about the insane amount of english words sneaking into our language.
challenge: find one dutch commercial without an english word in it.
- Crouwel0
do they have to mean the same?
- Crouwel0
vagina
- Crouwel0
anus
- Crouwel0
funny. why are only our private parts of the body similar in dutch and english?
- Witt0
"extra" and "bus" are latin words - you might want to skip those.
- Witt0
so are anus and vagina
- Concrete0
I saw a dutch ad for a bus that gives you extra?
- Crouwel0
fuck
shit
kids
outsourcing
manager
bank
account
funall common in todays dutch language
- mr_snuggles0
well give me whatever for now and I'll sort out a proper list wth the client. But yeah I need both cognates and flase cognates...
- Crouwel0
flase cognates & cognates
hmm..
*opens dictionary
- mr_snuggles0
Admittedly, I had to mail para for the opposite of false cognate..
- wendog0
fifan
- Crouwel0
lekker
- Crouwel0
three ordinary dutch sentences:
"We gaan funshoppen met de kids in de summersale!"
"Ik kon die screensaver niet downloaden van je homepage, omdat mijn browser crashte."
"De human resource manager moet weer een headhunter inhuren omdat de sales manager geswitcht is naar research & development."
- Crouwel0
Have fun with that list snuggies:
- mr_snuggles0
thanks, I'll have my assistant skim through that tomorrow...