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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • karbonkel@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlTitle
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    1 year ago

    If anything, the Lemmy apps would look like Sync, because obviously Sync has existed way longer, even before Lemmy was even a thing. The more likely reason most of them look the same on Android, is because they’re following some (sometimes older) form of Material Design, the design standard for Android.







  • karbonkel@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlNice.
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    You can see the text “Den Haag Centraal” in the back, I recognise that font and styling as what the Dutch railways company uses.

    Yeah so much was clear, but the building that has the text “Den Haag Centraal” is the actual station. This picture is taken from the building opposite, which appears to contain several different things, so it’s not, like I thought, a ministry building.








  • karbonkel@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlCursing
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    In Dutch we curse and insult with diseases. For example “kankerzooi” = “cancerous mess” and “tyfuslijer” = “typhoid sufferer”. That first one is a bit frowned upon, but using “kanker” is becoming more common. There’s an established word “kankeren” which means “to grumble”, though.

    Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that this meme works very well for Dutch

    Some more examples:

    • Teringlijer = tuberculosis sufferer
    • Pestpokken = something with the plague and pox
    • Krijg de kolere = get cholera
    • Zich de tyfus werken = literally “to work so hard you get typhoid” (wtf), but really just “to work very hard”

    Funny one also is “kut” which means “vagina” and is used in the same way as cursing with “shit”. Also, something like “kanker” (cancer) can be used in a positive way to emphasize something, like “kankerlekker” meaning “extremely good tasting” (although still frowned upon by most people)

    Actually, just read the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_profanity