More Schiphol humour
Yes, a person speaking another language could have confused these two words, but it’s still funny. OH stands for ‘overheard’ and NS refers to the Dutch railways who are having a terrible winter so far.
View ArticleI move to you
Check out this current advert on telly that seems to annoy the Dutch and non-Dutch alike. This man’s accent is exaggerated (no kidding), but the ‘I move to you, you move to me’, an explanation of...
View ArticleThe swimsuite, is that in a Vegas hotel?
This is a non-story, there’s no girls to be seen, but I like the deliberate use of ’swimsuite’ instead of swimsuit everywhere in this video article (Thanks Jannelies!). It gets my attention as well...
View ArticleDon’t tell the mayonnaise!
Poor uninformed mayonnaise…! Usually, the Dutch ‘koel en donker bewaren’, a standard phrase on food products, is translated as ‘keep cool and out of sunlight’, ‘…direct light’, ’store in a cool and...
View ArticleGame off: a double dose of bad ordinal numbers
First, we have the fake baseball shirt sold by chain store HEMA with the bigazz ‘th’ instead of ‘rd’ and earlier this week I also got the pic of a poster for a Dutch event with the same mistake. Fail...
View ArticleDangerous fire safety protocol in Delft
A company in Delft who that doesn’t care enough to properly translate a fire safety protocol (!) shares with us its wisdom on what to do if fire breaks out. ‘End all phone calls.’ - Sorry Bert, I’ll...
View ArticleDouble Dutch take
This picture is in perfect Dutch, but did you just it read here in Dutch or in English first? It’s not Dunglish, it’s not wrong, but it could help you measure how your Dutch is doing. Translation:...
View ArticleDon’t break my Saturday!
It’s an easy mistake to make and to fix (ha ha), it’s in a part of Amsterdam where people mostly speak Turkish (my part of town), but it’s still cute. The rest of the Dutch in the shop window was...
View Article‘Sael’ makes it sounds more expensive and silly
They surely meant to spell ’sale’, but unfortunately, the magic didn’t happen. ‘Uitverkoop’ is still a really long word, and everywhere you look, you’ll see ’sale’. My inside joke about ’sael’ is...
View ArticleAmsterdam-style Dunglish parking machine
While the city of Amsterdam is one of the most expensive cities in the world to park in, the money the city has collected surely never went to hiring one lousy translator to handle their...
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