Gregory's Server@thor In Dutch we use the Dutch word “medicatie” for medication and we use the English word “drugs” for recreational substances.
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 @SuperDicq we keep on inventing words
a tablet is a nettbrett - a net board or net slate a web browser is a nettleser - a net reader a floppy drive is a diskettstasjon - a discquette station @SuperDicq granted, these are older loanwords put together; but they have been "Norwegified"
@SuperDicq we borrow words from English too. more so in day to day situations vs on print. we have this thing where we more often borrow from English when we're casually talking whereas on print we devise Norwegian words for things
@thor I think we adopt a lot of English words because we generally have very high English proficiency, lots of international trade. And because we’re a very small country we’re very used to having no Dutch translations for software and such. So the English computer terms stick because we mostly use English software. @SuperDicq i think what makes us insist on making our own words is the fact that we were only liberated from Denmark in 1905. we refer to our years under another country as "the 400 year night"
@SuperDicq we are heavily patriotic. in terms of national pride we resemble the Americans more than most European countries
@SuperDicq since we have zero colonial history it's just this day of joy. rather innocent.
@SuperDicq @thor and that’s just for “dutch” nationals as a dutch of Indonesian decent it runs even deeper in our communities as some were highly aligned with the colonial forces and some heavily against it. it’s not a fun topic but something worth talking about  @moth_ball @cell @henkery @thor I don’t know if the success of vtubers is a useful metric to measure international relations but I like this take nonetheless. @SuperDicq @cell @henkery @thor When you think of it as a foreign country specifically naming your country and marketing their culture to you, it wouldn't be very plausible if there's a lot of hate towards them in your country.
It's not a metric by any means but does at least confirm the existence of a large weeb community, as Cell said. @moth_ball @cell @henkery @thor Yeah true, I like HoloID tho. Before HoloEN was a thing they were the only ones who could speak English.
I wonder if they are gonna come with more spinoffs in other languages as well. But I think HoloNL is never gonna happen. Not that I would want that tho, it sounds like a horrible idea.  @moth_ball @henkery @SuperDicq @thor @cell @SuperDicq @henkery @thor @cell @moth_ball also Moona collabed with russian vtuber |
Denmark is the opposite.
we call a computer a "datamaskin"
the Danes just say "computer"
hilarious thing
"kuk i computeren" means "problem with the computer" in Danish
in Norwegian it means "cock in the computer"
Denmark is the opposite.