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Dutch is beautiful (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (16 children)

this is obviously a joke but it contains more dutch than people unfamiliar with the language might guess.

here is google's translation of a verbatim transcription of the image:

oopsie woopsie! the train is a piece of shit!

we are working really hard to make this maybe you can fwietsen better owo

Here are a few other variations with even better translations

Oepsie! De trein is stukkie wukkie! We sijn heul hard aan t werk om dit te make mss kan je beter. ⇨ Oopsie! The train is a bit wonky! We are working really hard to fix this maybe you can do better.
Oepsie! De trein is stukkie! We sijn heul hard aan t werk om dit te make mss kan je beter. ⇨ Oops! The train is broken! We are working very hard to fix this maybe you can do better.
Google suggests changing the former to: Oepsie! De trein is stukkie! We zijn heel hard aan t werk om dit te make mss kan je beter. ⇨ Oops! The train is broken! We are working very hard to fix this maybe you can do better.
which translates in the other direction from Oops! The train is broken! We are working very hard to fix this maybe you can do better. to Oeps! De trein is kapot! We werken er hard aan om dit te verhelpen, misschien kun jij het beter doen.

Maybe a Dutch speaker will comment here and tell us how many of the words in the image are actual Dutch words? I suspect google is probably providing plausible translations for some that aren't really.

[–] myster0n@feddit.nl 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's more like : oopsie woopsie! The train has broken down. We're trying very hard to fix it. Maybe you'd better take a bike (or "bwike")

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I assume "oopsie woopsie " is not a typical phrase in the Netherlands, and it's like Ned Flanders from The Simpsons saying "whoospie doodle"?

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 weeks ago

Haha “flanders”

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, correct.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah it's like saying "whoopsie daisy". It's not super uncommon but usually used as a joke/sarcastically.

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