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Re:I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me wi... by drfuchs on Thursday November 09, 2017 @09:48AM (#15662797)
There are lots of low-wage Afrikaans speakers, and Wikipedia says there "is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between" Dutch and Afrikaans. So there must be some other explanation for why you get native Dutch speakers for customer support?
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Re:I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me wi... by Aaargh20318 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:54AM (#15663394)
Afrikaans is not similar enough for customer support roles. If you hear Afrikaans as a Dutch person you can sort of get the meaning of what they are saying if they speak slow enough, but it's not like it's just a dialect.

It's a bit like the difference between English and Jamaican Creole.

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