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Old but gold (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by kewwwi@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 33 points 10 months ago

Jeroom is great, unfortunately most of his content is in Dutch (unfortunate because I don't understand it)

[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Send me your favorite Dutch Jeroom comics and I'll translate them. (I'm Flemish)

Yes I know how stupid this sounds.

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks. I usually type the balloons into Google translate and get a sensible chuckle out of it, or sometimes I guess the joke only works in its original language. If I see one of those I'll ask you!

I thought he was Dutch btw, I remember he posted something about being in Amsterdam doing a show and I assumed he spoke Dutch

[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

He's Belgian, born in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, Flanders. We speak a couple of regional dialects collected under the name Flemish. It's basically Dutch with a twist.

Lots of comedians in Flanders also do shows in the Netherlands and the other way around. Not that many Dutch speaking people in the world, so might as well try and reach all of them I guess.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks to portuguese, my mind keeps associating Flemish with flamingoes and flamenco.

[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I thought flamenco was Spanish.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

It is, but "a flemish person" would translate to "uma pessoa flamenga" in portuguese. 3 very similar sounding and written words that relate to very different things.