Why do you think Dutch looks like German?

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:20 pm

Simple as the title reads..

I don't get it.. 9/10 times I talk to someone who isn't dutch in dutch he says:

"I don't speak German"..

Just a chat I had 2 minutes ago:
Captain Jack Sparrow: ahoy
1211: land in zicht
Captain Jack Sparrow: im not german
Captain Jack Sparrow: me nos peak germanian

He added me to xfire cus of cSro..

Grimjaw · Post by **Grimjaw** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:36 pm

TwelveEleven wrote:Simple as the title reads..

I don't get it.. 9/10 times I talk to someone who isn't dutch in dutch he says:

"I don't speak German"..

Just a chat I had 2 minutes ago:
Captain Jack Sparrow: ahoy
1211: land in zicht
Captain Jack Sparrow: im not german
Captain Jack Sparrow: me nos peak germanian

He added me to xfire cus of cSro..

Tell me something in dutch then....>.>

Ell · Post by **Ell** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:43 pm

Because they're both Germanic languages...just like English.

poehalcho · Post by **poehalcho** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:07 pm

because deuts sounds like dutch. and the languages are pretty similiar (i know them both)

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:23 pm

in german the german language is called deutsch

Dutch is like old german (or the other way round, cant remember). Just like in english we have the new english and old english (where people say thou and thee and crap like that)

Post by **dom** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:40 pm

I don't speak either and can tell the difference very easily. I find german looks alot more rough, dutch looks more "french".

skulldiver · Post by **skulldiver** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:49 pm

don't speak either and can tell the difference very easily. I find german looks alot more rough, dutch looks more "french".

yep...altho i see alot more kiddies with there 1337/msn speak
shortening almost everything.

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:16 pm

Innovacious wrote:in german the german language is called deutsch

Dutch is like old german (or the other way round, cant remember). Just like in english we have the new english and old english (where people say thou and thee and crap like that)

There was a language before Dutch and German

They're both 'dialects' from the same language called 'Diets'

But they look totally different

Dutch:
"Ik ben TwelveEleven, ik ben 17 jaar oud en een jonge"
German:
"Ich bin TwelveEleven, ich bin 17 jahre alt und ein Jung"

Website · Post by **satman83** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:18 pm

i wanna know why your never online 1211....i just did 5 trades by myself

XuChu · Post by **XuChu** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:33 pm

They are from the same language family.
Indo European
and of the sub group
Germanic as well as Proto Germanic from the Proto Indo European

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