A quick Dutch lesson… <\/p>\n
In Dutch, ‘ee’ is said like we would say ‘ay’. So for example, Nee is said like ‘nay’.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I dragged Xander into town while I went shopping for fabric to make some liners for the hedgie cage.<\/p>\n
The conversation with the sales girl went like this:<\/p>\n
Me<\/strong>: <\/strong>Ik wil twee meters fleece kopen, alstublieft! (I would like to buy 2 meters of fleece, please)<\/p>\n Girl<\/strong>: ** Weird look **<\/p>\n Xander stepped in then and took over and explained to the girl what I wanted.<\/p>\n On the way out he explained to me why the girl looked at me so funny.<\/p>\n In Dutch, vlees is said like (hmm trying to think of how to type it in English) … flayse… and it means MEAT.<\/p>\n In Dutch FLEECE is said like FLEECE, the same way we say it in English. Only I didn’t know that and said it making the ‘ay’ sound for ‘ee’.<\/p>\n So what did I actually say to the chick? Yeah, well I guess the title already gave it away.<\/p>\n I would like to buy two meters of meat, please!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n No wonder she looked at me like I had two heads… but jeez, how was I supposed to know fleece was said like fleece?! ARGH! How embarassing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A quick Dutch lesson… In Dutch, ‘ee’ is said like we would say ‘ay’. So for example, Nee is said like ‘nay’. Yesterday I dragged Xander into town while I went shopping for fabric to make some liners for the hedgie cage. The conversation with the sales girl went like this: Me: Ik wil twee …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-life-in-nl","category-funny-shit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}