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		_visgean 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apo... I think the conclusion is wrong; that sounds much more like dutch.

diggan 9 months ago | [–]

I think that says a lot about the origin of the joke, which most likely comes from outside Europe :)

int_19h 9 months ago | [–]

Dutch is more or less what you get if you take German and English and meet in the middle.

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