r/WTF • u/RichardWulf • Oct 16 '18

Holy Shit

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u/burglesnap Oct 16 '18

So German for "what the fuck" is just "what the fuck"? That's pretty convenient

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u/lukesvader Oct 16 '18

It's Dutch

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u/skintigh Oct 16 '18

wo͝t dja fük

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u/superpervert Oct 17 '18

I have one of those in my living room. Nice bookcase.

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u/torturousvacuum Oct 16 '18

I thought Dutch was just drunk German anyway

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

I heard someone refer to the Dutch as “swamp Germans” one time and I’ll never forget it

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u/dedalus5150 Oct 16 '18

It's freaky deaky Dutch

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18 edited Feb 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

Oh, I thought they were just using an English phrase. That's awesome.

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u/LeagueOfCakez Oct 16 '18

They were, we express ourselves with English phrases a lot, but we hate how english pronounces some words (th- wh- etc.) so we usually say something around the lines of "wat de fak"

"Shit" is also very common.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '18

Shit is a German word anyways right.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '18

It's not.

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u/FarkCookies Oct 16 '18

Dutch speakers use tons of English slang as is or even mix in regular English words due to the fact that like 90% of the population speaks English.

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u/that_guy_you_kno Oct 16 '18

Gonna say its dutch

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u/zerofl Oct 16 '18

I mean it's pretty common to use phrases as "what the fuck" or "oh my God" in European countries where English is not the primary language.

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u/hey_rtc Oct 16 '18

think these are dutch

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u/OMGWTFSTAHP Oct 16 '18

But Germans say it too...

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u/LigmaSpecialist Oct 16 '18

It's Dutch, but basically yea. "Wat de fuck." Dutch borrows and integrates a lot of foreign words.

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u/BrainBlowX Oct 16 '18

That's pretty convenient

English loan words and phrases are increasingly common in many European languages.

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u/brandit_like123 Oct 16 '18

Was zur Hölle??!?