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Oh no offense taken at all, it's all good. You mean understand as in the way they speak English (dunno where you're from) or understanding as in mutual feelings? I unfortunately don't know a lot of Belgians but every single one I've met has an incredible sense of humanity to them that I really really like. |
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As ek (ik) Afrikaans praat verstaan hulle (zij) my mooi. Suiwer Nederlands is (zijn) vir my beetje moeilik. You should understand that I think :) |
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I do understand that, though I slightly have to puzzle things together I get it from context ! Maar ik kan begrijpen dat echt dialect Hollands bijvoorbeeld moeilijk te verstaan is (maar lezen is vaak makkelijker). Ik denk overigens dat echt plat boers Brabants (waar ik woon en vandaan kom) wel wat meer in de buurt komt van Belgisch en Afrikaans. |
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im partly of welsh heritage so i cant have a go at them too much, although when you in wales and you enter a shop and they notice you're English, they change to speaking welsh |
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what nationality are you Portnoy? |
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Actualyl Dutch people understand me equally well I think (in some cases equally not), it's my own understanding which varies |
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I'm South African, hyperflake |
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ah ok, ik verstaan. Ja sommige mense se Afrikaans is soos boer flaams haha |
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i really wouldn't have guessed that, where do you live? |
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Moar dan moek wel ech heul plat proate wilde da misschie nie verstoan, misschie wel nie ins alsk plat tiep |
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this is really bizarre watching two people communicate in mutually intelligible languages |
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like something out of star trek |
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Last time I was talking with one of my American friends I blew his mind about how travelling East for 1.5 hrs would land me inside Germany, and 40 mins South I end up in Belgium..... |
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When he travels 1.5 hrs any direction he'd still be in the city lol |
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yeah when i went to florida the state was basically the same size as the UK, its so big, less that a couple of hours your in the UK as well, i think its a shame the UK is an island in a way, i think its why alot of people forget we are part of europe as we dont have any borders as such |
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jy het my daar verloor ongelukkig. |
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Cape Town |
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Well you kind of do. They're just really really wet. |
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yes your never more than an hour or so away from the coast here, in fact im like 30 minutes walk away, |
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ive been to utrecht to pick up a synth before lovely town full of blonde people and students everyone could speak english but in the pub some people were fucking rude |
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do you have flamethrowers on the skirts of your car? |
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why are dutch women so attractive, when i went they all looked like models and they were probably average women there |
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i felt like a cro magnon like i was less evolved somehow, dark and hairy |
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hi fah |
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no, I have hardened windows though for bricks 'n things, not bulletproof unfortunately, though no one has shot at me, luckily |
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Utrecht is a really great city to visit if you've never been to NL. Everyone who goes to NL should go there at least once.. What do you mean with rude in pubs btw? |
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perhaps i am less evolved |
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sup man |
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wow so many conversations interlinking |
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i know someone from south africa, he lives in liverpool now, he told me about a spider that follows your shadow |
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I think this topic was originally about some machine I made, can't even remember myself now |
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that's cool :) lots of South Africans in the UK. At least there used to be. I haven't encountered this spider. |
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sorry yeah its my fault for asking loads of questions |
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yes UK is almost directly north isnt i suppose, you could walk most of the way there |
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you could probably do it by train, though I’ve yet to try |
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did you know south africa probably had nuclear weapons in the late 70s? |
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I don't believe I did know! That's very interesting. I'm pretty sure had they been successful, PW Botha probably would have pushed the button. In some alternate universe Apartheid is still holding on, threatening the world with Nuclear attack. |
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I remember the end of apartheid, that Zuma guy seems incredible sleazy, seems like tribal loyalties and national politics isnt a good mix, i dont know enough about it though |
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when i think of south africa i think of a couldn't divided between palatial wealth in gated communities and stuff like Necklacing and shanty towns, i have no idea if that is accurate its just my mental picture |
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I remember it too, HF. We recently celebrated Freedom Day (first democratic elections) |
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yeah, I’d say that’s not wholly inaccurate. It’s varied though. That’s how I see most of Gauteng. There’s large open farmland too and just nature. Urban areas ofc things are different. I used to live in the center in town, in a flat, with a guard. Down on the streets drug dealers and pimps and prostitutes and homeless people. It sounds worse than it is. This mawy sound like a terrible description but it’s actually not bad, you just need to play it smart. It helps if you befriend people. I was attacked twice (by some homeless and then by the fing police - obviously I didnt play it smart) so we moved a little further out of town in a little shoebox flat. There’s a guard here but no fence. It’s quiet in general though, it’s a weird area, we’ve lived here for about a year now Generally the country still divided by class and race. It’s better than it was though, though indeed with Zuma as president state resources are mismanaged and education needs to be fixed, what can you do but go on. |
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yes the last part is happening increasing across the world it seems, or at least we are just more aware of it in the information age |
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well im glad your safer anyway, ive had my head kicked in by a gang of chavs and been assualted and i dont live in south africa |
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you can get fucked up anywhere. I guess we’re both lucky not have been shot or stabbed. Yes it’s safer now though I miss living in town there’s a good buzz in the air. |
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yes i live in a town, nothing much happens, it never changes |
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when I say I miss living in town, I actually mean in the city, which is actually quite small, though not a town, but called one. Didnt u have that massive explosion recently? I'd say that was quite an event. |
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sorry Fah completely derailed the thread |
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lol yeah i forgot about that already, the joke round he is that it made hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of improvements |
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mavis |
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