Funny Dutch Day

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I ran across this Dutch word in a cover letter: verantwoordelijkheidsgevoel. Dutch (and German, where many Dutch words and constructs come from) are pretty funny languages for a native English speaker. So many of the words are similar or the same, and so many of them are so very very different.

When I was riding home, an older lady riding in front of me dropped her 4-pack
of toilet paper out of her side bags on her bike. So i rode up to her and
said "excuse me" and pointed back at the road, but she just gave me the evil
eye like i was some kind of biking salesperson trying to sell her some road
dirt. She is going to be very sad when her husband calls from the pot "could
you bring me that toilet paper you picked up at the store?" Of course, in Dutch it will probably be more l ike "bringmetoiletpaperthat youpickedupatthestore, could you?"


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