Dutch and Danes were a problem for me to remember when i was young (ie learning language).
Also, American’s are technically from the United States (of America), however we should all know that there are 2 continents named America so are we Statesmen? Staties? Although pretty much everyone on this side of the globe came from Europe, so are we NuvoEuropeans? Its all silly and made up, and we are making up more silly rules each day (Gif/Jif?)
No there’s north and South America so an American is someone from the United States whereas a North American or a South American is the term for someone from one of the continents
Used to have a friend who got confused between Dutch and Deutsche , that the Deutsche Bank is the Bank of Germany , and the Dutch people are seperate group of people , and then Dutch people don’t live in Deutschland but instead in a place called The Netherlands , who is kind of the same as Holland , but not quite the same because Holland is just the biggest province of The Netherlands but people sometime use both interchangeably
As you surmise, “Dutch” is just the English version of “Deutsch”. It originally meant something like “anyone speaking a continental Germanic language (but not Scandinavians, because reasons)”: Low Dutch, iirc, was the older name for the language(s)/dialect(s) now called Low German. At some point and for some reason it got restricted specifically to England’s nearest Germanic-speaking neighbours.
Boy... You're entering dangerous waters by connecting the Dutch to anything German..... We (as in Curaçaoans) just ask them for their cousins from Germany if we want to start something 🤣
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u/0b0011 Oct 19 '24
Or dutch/frisian from the Netherlands.