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RE: Evening Contemplation of... Anguished English!

in #writing7 years ago

Always good for a laugh, but many idiotic phrases are finding their way into Dutch because of incompetent translators, especially through commercials, and I must say that is starting to annoy me a bit.

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I would imagine that would also be more prevalent these days since you have a large immigrant population in the Netherlands.

Strangely, many of them speak better Dutch than those who write texts for commercials 8-).