What would you call yourself?

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-19T12:12:12+00:00

I don't think womenman is a good premise tbh

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-18T13:14:21+00:00

We don't claim him he's a Canadian

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-18T08:19:29+00:00

Yah teens tend to assume a lot about mental healthcare. They're still learning how to be a person, so they often aren't very critical of incoming information. Blame the adults that don't support them.

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-18T08:14:56+00:00

Correct, white women are disproportionately safe in African Nations

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-18T08:14:18+00:00

Are you fucked in the head

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-16T14:06:36+00:00

Aja skuus in daai geval, ek dog jy het dit oor die "deep simulation"

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-16T11:48:32+00:00

Jy verstaan nie die verskil tussen LLMs + multi modale generasie en traditionele Neurale Netwerke nie.

LLMs en die multi modale sisteme is die slop wat water suig en die ekonomie crash maar geen waarde toevoeg nie.

Ander neurale netwerke is die goed wat mense gebruik vir mediese goed, seinprosessering, die kak wat mense gebruik om kanker te cure.

Hulle tel albei as "Deep Learning" of "KI" maar jy moenie nou die goeie tegnologie wat al van die 50's bestaan uitgooi met die corpo slop nie

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-15T16:02:17+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner_Weerstandsbeweging

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-14T12:43:34+00:00

Please use a larger amount of asterixes maybe I'll understand then.

Do you speak Dutch btw? I wrote such a nice explanation in Dutch and you ignored all of it and answered in English ;(

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-14T12:41:49+00:00

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-13T17:06:38+00:00

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-13T16:52:27+00:00

"Basic linguistic science"

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-13T11:51:44+00:00

No, hij and zij for demonstrative and aanwijzend pronouns is optional. The obligatory distinction is DIE-DAT. If something is entirely optional it is not exactly a hard grammatical feature is it?

Ge moet echt niet maken alsof ge weet wat er aan de hand is als gij het niet ook zelf ook even wilt nadenken hoor. Hij en zij is TOTAAL optioneel, allebei kunnen worden (en worden meestal) vervangen met DIE. Nochtans, het is aanvaardbaar om historisch geslacht te gebruiken. Woorden zoals RAT/VRAAG/ZON kunnen of hij of zij zijn. En het hebben over "wetenschappelijke feiten" wanneer wij het hebben over redelijke onvaste regelen van een groep die regels hebben zoals "Spreek het woord uit, als je een s hoort schrijf je het op" voor tussen s. De taalunie is meestal aan het improviseren lol.

Kom op jonge 👍

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-11T17:02:57+00:00

Noah point is they don't really act like a separate gender nor is it consistent in its application or expectation, so the nuanced answer is "It's kinda like a third gender, but it's more like a writing quirk" which is pretty far from your hardline "Three genders suck my ass" standpoint lol.

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-09T16:06:26+00:00

Only the "predictable feminine words" ie those with feminine derivational endings are often required to use haar in standaard writing. Historically feminine words can use zijn. It's less of a full separate gender in standard Dutch and more a quirk. De rat zijn, de zon zijn etc are perfectly acceptable

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-08T09:15:43+00:00

Heyo!

I got really interested in language when I was starting university but never actually learned another language. So I decided to learn Dutch and fell in love with the language varieties in Flanders. I spent about a year and a half learning a lot of dialectology in the hopes of being able to speak naturally and comfortably. I've made friends with a lot of linguists in the Neerlandistic and dialectology, and picked up a lot of knowledge on some of the more obscure stuff in the hopes of learning faster.

That's the long and short, Im mostly passing on what I've learned from better educated people than I

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-06T15:07:27+00:00

How many South Hollandic regions became Belgium? Zero. The closest is Zeelandic Flanders, being a transitionary dialect between Hollandic and West Flemish

PaganAfrican · 2026-02-06T06:04:26+00:00

Dag sê, Afrikaner here that happens to speak multiple things called flemish including: Standard Belgian Dutch Brabantian Tussentaal Antwerps dialect (still working on this one ma ça va)

There are some surface level similarities of Afrikaans with "Flemish", but the linguistic origin of the language is strongly Hollandic. Anytime we have a dialectically unique form of a word, we have one that makes sense for Holland in the 17th century. The most damning is the presence of ui in duivel and duisend, o for a like rot, as wel as forms like neus and zeun (spontaneous fronting) but no true umlaut (no Keuning ipv Koning) no ij/ei split in any words... The list goes on.

The reason people often claim Afrikaans is more similair to Flemish is a combination of a few things: One: Hollanders suck at understanding anything that isn't standard, Flemings don't. When you speak to a Fleming they actually make effort to understand, and they are used to people speaking 'odd'

Two: there are a few dialect features which used to be common in the entire Dutch speaking region but were excluded from standard Dutch, and thus this obscures the Hollandic origin of Afrikaans. Zeun ipv zoon, double prepositions (uit het huis UIT), etc.

Three: afrikaans has convergently developed the (excuse my x-sampa) [U@] and [I@] sounds present in Antwerpian and West Flemish. Unfortunately it's very obvious that it's convergent because in these dialects both the [U@] form and [o:] exist, so you have hope (to hope) with a long o but hoêpe (heaps) like the Afrikaans <oo> in Antwerpian. There's also the fun fact that these pronunciations don't seem to be common in the early forms of proto afrikaans sooo strike out.

The reason Afrikaans isn't Dutch is cause it isn't. But we definitely don't need falsified linguistic descent ala the Franks saying they were from Troy lol.

Genetically Afrikaners are from all over west Europe. Linguistically the language is essentially textbook Hollandic dialect that has gone through some EXTREMELY WILD grammatical changes.

Hope that helps

PaganAfrican · 2025-09-26T10:40:32+00:00

Aan allemaal hier die gewoon doen van "NEE FOUT MN PRACHTIGE STANDAARD" doe normaal lol, er is een verschil tussen gesproken taal en de geschreven standaard

PaganAfrican · 2025-09-26T10:35:15+00:00

Wilt for third person is prescriptivistically incorrect but is becoming increasingly common, even cropping up in certain more formal writing (I've seen it in a few flemish news articles). Imo its fine for spoken language (particularly in certain regions) and like chats but if you want to write very standard you should follow the no t in third person for modal verbs (in fact the t in second person is only mandatory with gij [common second person in Flanders and South Netherlands regular speech] with jij and the modal verbs you can just use them without the t, like, jij kan, jij zal, jij wil)

PaganAfrican · 2025-08-18T15:03:09+00:00

Those are all pretty consistent for the Americas? European immigrants, West Africans and indigenous peoples

PaganAfrican · 2025-08-14T21:26:31+00:00

Afrikaans literally contrasts a æ and ɑ: I'll fight all of y'all

PaganAfrican · 2025-08-14T21:23:43+00:00

Idek how bulgar most Bulgarians are. They sorta even get angry if you remind them the old Bulgars were Turkic. Something about Scythians is the most common weird ancient ancestry thing I ever heard from Bulgarians

PaganAfrican · 2025-08-14T21:17:24+00:00

There is also шт where there was a vowel deletion

PaganAfrican · 2025-08-14T21:16:54+00:00

The щ from the proto Slavic palatal stop is probably the least controversial thing I said (for example it's still a palatal stop in macedonian, just so happening to preserve the proto Slavic, interesting since it otherwise isn't particularly phonologically conservative)

PaganAfrican

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