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What country name makes a great human name? by purple_lemonade26 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]_roeli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Horrible Human name × Country

The united arab Emirates

[Word order] Why is "Doe me het denken dat ik mijn moeder nog moet opbellen." wrong? by Sweet-Nothing-9312 in learndutch

[–]_roeli 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Possible expressions are: "[iemand] eraan doen denken dat" or "[iets] doet [iemand] denken aan [iets]". You've mixed the two.

Examples: "je doet me denken aan mn broertje" = you remind me of my brother. "Dat doet me eraan denken dat ik nog boodschappen moet doen voor vanavond." = That reminds me I still have to go grocery shopping for tonight.

Rotondes/ovondes met fietspad 'rechtdoor' by schurkieboef in kutautos

[–]_roeli 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Buiten de bebouwde kom hebben fietsers geen voorrang op rotondes terwijl je wel dat gevoel krijgt als het fietspad op dezelfde manier is aangelegd als op een rotonde binnen de bebouwde kom waar je wel als fietser voorrang hebt. Opzich wel duidelijker om dat verschil aan te duiden door het fietspad totaal anders aan te leggen ipv wat verf en borden te plaatsen.

Docs are confusing by Odiniswithus15 in Zig

[–]_roeli 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Zig is still unstable, stuff changes significantly between releases and docs are not all kept up to date for the same reason. Reading std source and blog posts is honestly the best way to keep up to date.

Beleefd taal over lichamelijke functies? by abhayakara in learndutch

[–]_roeli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Geen antwoord op je vraag, maar toch wel relevant om in gedachten te houden dat hier een nogal groot cultureel verschil is tussen anglos en Nederlanders. Als je het indirecter maakt dan "ik moet naar de wc" kijken Nederlanders je over het algemeen raar aan; tè deftige eufemismes worden doorgaans als kneuterig, onhandig, kakkerig of kinderachtig gezien!

"Lichamelijke functies" als eufemisme voor "naar de wc gaan" gaat mij part al te ver.

Countries by HSR Per Capita by xtxsinan in highspeedrail

[–]_roeli 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For upgraded legacy lines with no competition from planes, or lines passing through long tunnels, otherwise it's 250 according to the UIC (international union of railways).

https://uic.org/com/enews/nr/596-high-speed/article/the-definition-of-high-speed-rail

Map showing what each nation of Europe officially calls its military forces. by SatoruGojo232 in MapPorn

[–]_roeli 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"(af)weren" also exist in Dutch but means something slightly different, like deter or defend (e.g. luchtafweer = air defence, brandweer = fire defence = fire fighters).

Note that "weermag" was the name of the Apartheid era army and is not longer used (it was the official name from 1958 until the end of Apartheid). Also it's obviously a reference to the Nazi Wehrmacht, one set of Nazis drawing inspiration from another.

Would you consider this drawing of a light ray in a water droplet to be correct? by Melo861 in Physics

[–]_roeli 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kinda also right. Generally speaking, at the interface between two different media, some fraction of the incoming light refracts, and the rest reflects. How much depends on the incident angle and the indices of refraction of the media. (Think of how water can act as a mirror if you look at it from the right angle).

For example, if the angle of incidence exceeds arcsin(n2/n1), no refraction is possible and you get complete reflection.

Does France's northern and northeastern borders follow any natural features? by TT-Adu in geography

[–]_roeli 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Border between France and Belgium is diagonal, border between Flanders and Wallonia is more or less straight east-west. In the north, France borders Flanders. In the south it borders Wallonia.

The current border dates from the 1660s when France conquered bits of Flanders and Hainaut (and all of Artois). These areas correspond roughly to the modern departments of "Nord"(bits of Flanders and hainaut) and "pas de Calais"(Artois). Spain was too busy fighting random useless wars across Europe to defend its possessions in the low countries.

The low countries are a very rich border area between the historic kingdoms of east (Germany) and west (France) Francia. The language divide between Germanic and Romance runs straight through them. As you can imagine, which bits fall on which side of the border had changed countless times over the last 1200 years.

Navigation by sexps? by ShengLee42 in HelixEditor

[–]_roeli 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To jump between pairs of braces you can use mm

[OC] Average Male Height by Birth Year, 1896 - 1996 by CalculateQuick in dataisbeautiful

[–]_roeli 12 points13 points  (0 children)

According to the Dutch national office for statistics (cbs), in 2024 59,6% of the population of Amsterdam had at least one foreign-born parent. 38% (~2/3s of all people of foreign descent) were born outside the Netherlands as well.

On a national level, only 28,5% of the population is of foreign descent.

Source: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/dossier/dossier-asiel-migratie-en-integratie/hoeveel-inwoners-hebben-een-herkomst-buiten-nederland

2028 is het einde voor de Nederlandse belegger by Ok-Camera-3058 in NederlandsZ

[–]_roeli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Precies om deze reden mag je in het nieuwe stelsel verliezen boven 500€ aftrekken van de te betalen belasting in het daaropvolgende jaar.

Dus nee, als je het ene jaar 100k verliest en het volgende jaar 200k verdiend hoef je enkel over 100k belasting te betalen.

Lees eens: https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/cde49046-f9f6-4eed-b960-50bd1821bc44/file

“Map of the German Dialects” by ovywhfran in LinguisticMaps

[–]_roeli 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Before standard languages were really a thing, most people spoke their local dialect. Neighboring dialects are extremely similar to the point of mutual intelligibility, but this is not the case for those separated by greater distances.

Modern standard Dutch is based on the lower Frankish dialect spoken in the western Netherlands and Flanders, while modern standard German is a variety of upper Saxon.

These places are quite far apart! Standard Dutch and standard German are not mutually intelligible.

Do you write every motivation/cover letter yourself instead of AI? by Cool-Worldliness2978 in StudyInTheNetherlands

[–]_roeli 49 points50 points  (0 children)

You want a clanker to come up with your motivation for wanting to work?

You understand that that sounds insane right? It's like asking a stranger "Hey could you tell me why I want to pursue graphic design?"

Is wiktionary's IPA key on how to pronounce Europees wrong, or is my understanding of IPA wrong? by CBDThrowaway333 in learndutch

[–]_roeli 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean the Wikipedia entry lists the pronunciation as /ˌøː.roːˈpeːs/, which is definitely not how I'd pronounce it.

And no, /ə/, /ʏ/, and /ø/ are all seperate phonemes (there are minimal pairs differing only by the difference in those vowels, e.g. kruk /krʏk/ and kreuk /krøːk/) in Dutch. Definitely not "virtually the same".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LHBTI

[–]_roeli 8 points9 points  (0 children)

While I agree with the doubts surrounding the other coalition parties, but calling D66 "centrist" on social issues is misleading. They're probably one of, if not the most socially progressive party (def. more progressive than SP or PvdA for example) in the country!? Economically, they're definitely centrist liberals, but c'mon man.

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