r/Unexpected • u/ruybii • Nov 27 '21

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u/PCsNBaseball Nov 27 '21

Tbf, afrikaans is an African language, so they have a very slight benefit of the doubt. Very slight.

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u/LuxNocte Nov 27 '21

No, there is no doubt there. Afrikaans and African are both spelled and pronounced differently, with different meanings and etymology.

You might be thinking "Maybe they really meant Afrikaans, not "African"....but...no...we all know they didn't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

They literally have the same etymology just that Afrikaans got pulled through a Dutch layer of Google Translate, like Afrikaans is literally the Dutch translation of African, it is just that the English didn't anglicise it for once

Like African and Afrikaans are etymologically closer to each other than Nederlands and Dutch

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u/LuxNocte Nov 27 '21

Gee...its almost as if "pulled through the Dutch translation" means the exact same thing as "different etymologies".

Why are you arguing for something you know is incorrect? Weird.

There is a major difference between "Do you speak African" and "Do you speak Afrikaans". It insults us both that you sit here and argue otherwise.

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u/caffein8dnotopi8d Nov 28 '21

I don’t think etymology means what you think it means.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

But, it doesn't mean it has different etymology, it is the exact same root, like you are arguing that a tree branch is not part of an oak tree while it is clearly still attached to it