- Shelena ( @Shelena@feddit.nl ) 17•8 months ago
Stomme Wilders.
- arymandias ( @arymandias@feddit.de ) 16•8 months ago
I’m very curious to all non Dutch speakers what they think ‘dwangwet’ means.
- Tja ( @Tja@programming.dev ) 9•8 months ago
It’s the only word I don’t understand… Here’s my guess:
We have a serious problem with the political developments with the “dwangwet” and I hope it can be resolved in the next days.
I’m going to guess it means “Covfefe”.
- androogee (they/she) ( @androogee@midwest.social ) English8•8 months ago
Sorry, you figured out “developments” from “ontwikkelingen”?
- Tja ( @Tja@programming.dev ) 8•8 months ago
I speak German as well, so Entwicklungen is pretty similar :)
- state_electrician ( @state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•8 months ago
Dwang is force, coercion and wet is law. That much I know. Coming from Wilders that cunt I guess it’s about forcing non Dutch people to do something.
- barsoap ( @barsoap@lemm.ee ) 3•8 months ago
Had to translate it root by root but literally “Zwangsgesetz”. My best guess is that Dutch rightoids use it in the sense of “tyranny”, same as Brexiteers used “Brussels dictate”. Somewhat embarrassingly “Dwangwett” is valid Low Saxon though we also have “Gesett” and I only just learned that “Wett” exists. Probably an East Frisian thing, you know, the kind of people who don’t even know the proper word for “to talk”.
Also I’ll assume that he can’t spell for shit and “mbt” is “met”.
- paperemail ( @paperemail@links.rocks ) 1•8 months ago
mbt (fully: m.b.t. ) is an acronym(?) for “met betrekking tot” which can be translated as: “in regards to” or just “regarding”
But yes, he could just as easily have used “met”
- barsoap ( @barsoap@lemm.ee ) 3•8 months ago
Ahhh bzgl.
- baseless_discourse ( @baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ) 2•8 months ago
Can you give a context?
- Tja ( @Tja@programming.dev ) 17•8 months ago
Sure:
- TimewornTraveler ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months ago
I’m gonna guess based on image searching that it means refugees or unhoused people
- KrokanteBamischijf ( @KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl ) 7•8 months ago
Let’s not pretend this guy might actually turn out te be a secret sith lord. He might be promoting radical ideas like Jar-Jar was in this scene, but let’s not give him that much credit.
Besides he’s not goofy enough. If anyone gets to be Jar-Jar it would be Thierry, he ticks all the boxes:
- he talks funny
- he has had his fair share of clumsy oopsie moments
- his interactions are generally awkward
- no one in their right mind takes him seriously
- he is shunned by his people
- 🐝bownage [they/he] ( @bownage@beehaw.org ) 2•8 months ago
Deze voor je, geert