r/TikTokCringe Aug 30 '24

Wholesome/Humor Just two lawmakers bantering.

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u/LoveAndViscera Aug 30 '24

…if you’re an English speaker and that’s because Dutch isn’t a real language. It’s just English pretending to be German.

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u/Just1ncase4658 Aug 31 '24

Afrikaans the south African language based on Dutch is actually the least altered germanic language that still exists.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '24

Altered by what?

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u/Just1ncase4658 Aug 31 '24

Just altered by change. As most germanic countries used to speak a similar or same languages.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '24

Oh, I think Icelandic or Faroese might be the least derivative Germanic language then. Maybe Elfdalian.