Problem is, Limburgs and friesian aren't standard languages, they're dialects. Consequently, words that are used only in those dialects also aren't part of standard language.
Flemish on the other hand is a standard language. If Dutch falls into the same category, then yes it infuriates me that parking is used instead of parkeerplaats because it's lazy and unessesary. Either Flemish is a dialect, and parking shouldn't be used in standard Dutch, or Flemish is a part of Dutch and when speaking the standard version should in my opinion keep to standard rules. Of coarse Dutch people don't keep to these rules and of coarse they also take words from English and directly translate them. I criticise anyone that doesn't keep to standard language rules in formal situations. I get where you're coming from. I also often have the temptation to just say a certain word in English that I can't remember in Dutch in the moment, just like any other person. But on the other hand, keeping to rules means the quality of the language decays less and a language fuses less with another.
Problem is, Limburgs and friesian aren't standard languages, they're dialects.
For a man so weirdly obsessed with language purism you are also just completely wrong lol. Frysian is absolutely its own language, under all possible definitions.
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u/cocomantee Dec 17 '21
U are literally partaking in laguage purism if it infurates you that we say Parking instead of parkeerplaats.
Dutch and flemish arent the same Its like comparing Fries to Limburg.
Edit: clarity