This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan

Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by mcv on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @03:34AM (#6759910)

I'm Dutch, and people from the east of Netherland don't understand why I don't understand German, claiming the languages are so similar. But I have real trouble understanding German. Maybe when it's someone from the north-west of Germany who speaks very slowly and clearly. People from the east of Netherland have much less trouble, somehow.

(I'm utterly unable to understand people from the Dutch province of Zeeland when they're speaking to their parents. That's complete gibberish to me, though it doesn't have a special status as a local language, as far as I know. (unlike Nethersaxon, for example))

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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by srd on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @05:50AM (#6760346)

When you have trouble understanding germans, are they speaking Hochdeutsch or Platt? I'm curious if Platt is more closely related to Dutch than Hochdeutsch or not.

As a german, I always have problems understanding other germans when they speak english, so there's always that ;).

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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by wakeless on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @10:26AM (#6761727)

I'm from Australia and I can't understand from the Australian province New Zealand.

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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by vorg on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @04:00PM (#6764426)

"Australia's gotta become one country first."

The reply from former NZ Prime Minister Rob Muldoon when asked if NZ would ever become part of Australia.

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