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din your rules are pretty good, but I can still specify the position of something which is in a small space.

het boek ligt in de la
het boek ligt / zit in de doos
het boek ligt / staat in de kast

the pronoun Is not a matter of politeness but of social distance. u is more distant. soyes I would use u in this case

getting sweaty is the entire point if running you lazy buns ! I myself don't do any firm of sports. I realize this is bad, and any reason not to is an excuse, but still I have good excuses I think. 1. Running wi ll greatly hurt my knee joints. I do not think it's natural for those little knees to ca...

The thing is, if no 'grote bek' (big mouth) is given in the first place then I wouldn't even need to give a 'grote bek' back at them. And the vast majority of the days I don't need to give anyone a 'grote bek' because indeed as you say most people are normal. But if the shit does hit the fan you nee...

Leer - not lern which is German. Also you miss an argument, leer is ditransitive in the meaning of to teach Well, in German there's lernen 'learn' and lehren 'teach', so 'lern mich' is also wrong. Does Dutch use "leren" for both like Swedish lära (sig)? Yes it's both leren . You could use onderwijz...

I am pretty sure that the people you call 'tokkies' far outnumber the people you call 'normal people'. You will be surprised. ----------- Leiden is an interesting city in that it is divided between what we may call 'tokkies' (low-class, Dutch, low-education) and middle/upper class educated people. T...

For example, once I was talking to my dad who was visiting 'yeah and my roommate's parents have a swimming pool in their garden !' and she happened to walk in, so I said 'yeah I was telling my father that you have a swimming pool at home'. She reacted not even a bit surprised 'uh yeah so?'. She prob...

To be honest, I am actually proud to be of a not-very-high social class financially. I am probably one of the very few people from my original neighbourhood to be in a master's degree in higher education, for example. I am also probably the first of my father's side of the family to achieve this, as...

Though you keep repeating that as if it's some kind of mantra, "big mouthing" people is extremely rude. Big mouthing back is also rude. You are describing Dutch society as if we're all Tokkies , you being the #1 Tokkie of them all. Ah, so this is your problem. You are yourself extremely pretentious...

You are aware that Turkish people are a very large minority in Holland, right...? The same goes for Morrocan Moroccan people. I grew up in a neighbourhood with a lot of Turkish people. But I am not sure if I can spell their names right. But if your name is Meltem, Hasan , Sefika , Erkan, Özmel, Cih...

That new cities:skylines game is really eating up any time I should spend on useful things. The game is so addicting, I just can't. stop. playing. Instead of preparing my presentation, I have perfected my city's bus network.

So I guess this will be an all-nighter.

You know I did say that in some cases a name change can be legitimate, even if it's only to actually stand a chance to get a job for examply by changing your name into something Dutch if you have a Turkish name in Holland. What is a "Turkish" name that you have personally seen/heard? You are aware ...

You know I did say that in some cases a name change can be legitimate, even if it's only to actually stand a chance to get a job for examply by changing your name into something Dutch if you have a Turkish name in Holland. I cannot judge this particular case as a) it's fiction b) I do not know enoug...

Well very good that you at least make the advice appointment ! Writing down some questions you have is indeed a good idea. --------------- I have a presentation tomorrow but oh man I can't get myself to work on it. I wasted two entire days not working on it. I am very demotivated because I only keep...

Indeed such situations are quite complex. You say the foster care 'system' assigned her name; in reality the adoption parents generally assign the names of the children they adopt. And your adoption parents are for all intents and purposes your parents. It's not very easy to apply a situation from t...

I don't know, but I do know there's a difference between the [s] of Friesland and the [s] of my region Zeeland. The Frisian one seems more... laminal? At least it sounds much more salient than our [s]. We were with a Friesian once in Zeeland and we told him some of our dialect words, and when he pro...

Also, what if I had a foreign sounding name, would I change it on a job application to avoid being discriminated? Yes. Most definitely yes. Now I do happen to have a Dutch surname so it is not necessary for me, but if I had a name of Turkish origin I would certainly change it in job applications, as...

I assume that Cristofano was the 'nickname' in your group of friends, and he wanted to revert to his original name. I suppose that's understandable though such a change to me would imply some sort of tension in the group of friends certainly. In Holland, we have two kinds of names: Voornaam: The off...

Of course I do, but that doesn't mean that that is a core value of being Dutch these days. So what *is* a core value of being Dutch, then? Acting normally and not making yourself look more important than you are is certainly important. Or maybe you are pretentious yourself and are therefore so vehe...

These things happen all over the place in the real world. For example in the Vaupés Area in the Amazon, languages of unrelated genetic origin have been structurally influencing each other for years on end, without really extensive vocabulary borrowing. I dont think anyone knows why in South America,...

Very good without checking the dictionary though. Nice that you visit Amsterdam. Too bad you have such little time, if you ever go there for more days I would visit Leiden which is also a beautiful city (and incidentally where I live). Amsterdam is only 45 minutes for me but I don't go there that mu...

Heh your dutch looks like a German-Dutch pidgin kind of thing. Also, Amsterdam is not a country, the Netherlands is, but I 'm sure you know that it just looks like you don't from that one sentence. In J juli ga ik voor twee nachten naar Amsterdam voor twee nachten - ik houd van dat land Nederland , ...

You have never heard of the phrase 'doe normaal dan doe je al gek genoeg'?

Yes but usually you put books horizontally in a box so that they 'lie'. That's how I packed my moving boxes at least. It's how I would conceptualize a book lying' in a box.

Depends really.

Okay so who is being impolite here? The only people who I see behaving impolitely in this thread are you guys, throwing around swear words and all. I think you guys miss the point; if someone is so pretentious as to change their own name, they do not deserve to be called by their new name . You have...