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It’s interesting, thanks. I played in Gran Turismo with Dutch folks and they taught me to swear a bit.

Dutch can also sound exquisitely hilarious to an English speaker, hoor.

Or a German speaker–or any other language speaker I guess...

Ja, hoor!~

Im a native English speaker and spent 2.5 weeks in NL, by the end i was getting nauseous from all the "oo's", "ieu's", and words that my head could almost understand but not quite.

I'm from the US. I was in Amsterdam on a business trip, and I felt the same thing, but a lot faster than in 2.5 weeks. Fortunately, I found a Uruguayan steak house. I went there for dinners. The waiters were speaking Spanish, and I thought, "Yes! This feels like home!"

Spanish in Amsterdam? That sounds refreshing. Whenever I eat at a restaurant in Amsterdam, I get served in English about 80% of the time.

This started in Amsterdam in the 1990s but now also happens in regional cities. Restaurants in Breda of all places has English speaking staff. At least there is still a head waiter who speaks Dutch. I personally don't mind much. Whenever someone on Reddit says the Netherlands is xenophobic it makes me laugh.

Equally funny to me, The French add an 'e' to Putin when referring to him, probably because Putain sounds like Putin, which is basically the french F-word, especially in its ability to be swapped out for effect like the F-word. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/putain

Rather than risk confusion with putain (whore), the French opted to spell Putin's name phonetically in French -- and settled on "Poutine".

And the Canadians giggled.

Ha! What do they do in Quebec?

They snack on Poutine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine

No, I know that, I meant how do they refer to Putin?

Ah, I'm sorry - I misunderstood your question :)

Apparently he's called Poutine in Quebec as well which leads to a literal "freedom fries" situation as Quebecois restaurants that serve the dish avoid mentioning it by name to avoid controversy: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-diner-drops-poutine-from-...

> Kunt gets censored in a popular game

Ahhhh a distant cousin to the "Scunthorpe problem" - English and Dutch are not so dissimilar after all!

Related problem I saw recently, guy called Nasser had the "ass" in his name in some game's chat replaced with the string "***" taking a very common name and making it look like he named himself perhaps the worst word in the English language. Very unfortunate.

Had this problem in a Star Trek game.

Pakled is a specific race of aliens in the game and universe (TNG Samaritan Snare), but would get caught in the filter (Assuming due to Pakistanis?)

I remember them from my recent (~2 yrs ago, wow) re-watch of TNG! Their strategy was to look helpless to trick bypassers into helping them out, since they were not clever enough to do engineering work etc themselves.

For context, the performers Nicole & Hugo are from the Flemish (Dutch speaking) part of Belgium, not the Netherlands. Nicole recently passed away.

You know what's also not very ongezellig? Genocide.

Of the people of the Donbas by some Bandera-cheering national army you mean?

Interesting how genocide is mostly bought up by the side that raises a statue for Bandera[0] in Lviv who is responsible for actual genocide of Jews in what is now called Ukraine.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera (word genocide occurs 10x on the page, mainly in references)

Whataboutism defense

Little known fact! "Whataboutism" is an expression in English which means "I realize your example undercuts my argument, for it reveals it is not based on consistent, defensible principles, so I will just slap a label on it and declare it irrelevant to the discussion."

2 things can be bad at once

Interesting fact - there is a russian word for the feeling you are experiencing - when you feel bad because you understand that your opponent is having a point, you feel bad about it but instead of admitting it you are trying to be sarcastic - it is called "prigorayet" and is always associated with burning sensation just below your lower back.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic, in my experience my definition is actually spot on.

My opinion on the conflict in Ukraine is that one crooked state is fighting another, each side is fighting dirty, and neither side deserves my tax money for it. And I especially will not cheer on yet another conflict that the US has its dirty fingers in.

But calling it genocide is either hysteria or outright propaganda. We're not talking Rwanda here.

For the rest of your comment: get better at modeling your opponents before you psychoanalyze their feelings.

The Russians residing in Russia who visit this website and express they use a VPN to access blocked content are likely to disagree with Putin and his cronies. Chances are they know what's up.

A bit late to jump on your high horse, m8, it's an American site after all

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Or what about the polite Dutch for thank you: 'Dank u', which in French is heard as 'Dans cul', which is something completely different.