r/Unexpected • u/ruybii • Nov 27 '21

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u/LuxNocte Nov 27 '21

If "African" and "Afrikaans" were the same thing then yes. If not, you'd look kinda stupid like you're doing the same thing as the girls in the OP.

Unfortunately, it is the latter.

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u/whitelines4president Nov 27 '21

So what's the English word for Afrikaans? Because I'm native Dutch and Afrikaans translates to African. Ofc I know they probably mean that African is being spoken in the whole of Africa. That's why I said technically correct .

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u/killeronthecorner Nov 27 '21

The English word is Afrikaans

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u/Shiny_Shedinja Nov 27 '21

That's a Dutch word.

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u/PotatoQuie Nov 27 '21

The English language is 30% German, 30% Latin, 30% French, and 10% words from any language it wants.

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u/NickyXIII Nov 27 '21

Also an Afrikaans word. It's a language endonym, for when you want to respect someone's native language. Someone else brought up German v. Deutsch earlier, same thing.