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DWol  ·  4226 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Personal projects and research

Well actually none of those poets are Dutch, they're Afrikaans :) but I can see how that could be confusing. (The compilations are Flemish and Dutch though, it's a bit hard to understand some of the older stuff in there)

I'm certain there are some translations but I can't put my finger on one now.





humanodon  ·  4226 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah my mistake, I apologize!

I understand that Afrikaans is different from Dutch, but not exactly how. I have a few friends from SA who liked Indonesia for ease of travel, because many signs in Indonesia were in both Bahasa Indonesia and Dutch.

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DWol  ·  4226 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's pretty much a dialect that got lost. There's a high level of inter-understandability, but there are some differences, most notably the double negative and the lack of verb conjugation (I is, we is, they is).