Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@domo I'm surprised you didn't mention the d/t thing as the problem, as that's the one that trips up even most Dutch people for their entire lives 🙂

There are some other 'fun' ones, like the two different articles: eg. "de krat" vs. "het krat" which are both correct, but for most words, only one of the two is correct!

I'm curious what specific issue you have with the past tense? I'm a native Dutch speaker, so possibly there's something there that I never noticed.

(Aside, the water thing would be "geen water", rather than "green water" :p)

@necrophcodr The implication that it's unsafe because it's "from China", rather than because an irresponsible white asshole demanded an impossible set of design constraints and had the power and money to make that other people's problem to figure out

@mynameistillian I occasionally click through to the replies as viewed from another instance, and racist commentary like this nearly always seems to originate from either mastodon.social, infosec.exchange, or fosstodon - with occasionally other generic open instances in the mix...

Especially the sinophobia seems really common on infosec.exchange and also in retro circles 😕

Entirely unsurprisingly, the user in question was on infosec.exchange

@domo (There's going to be a couple of cases like this in Dutch, btw, where an established name for a group of things or people is treated as a singular object - they're *technically* not uncountable nouns, I believe, but they behave like them for the purpose of grammar)

@linus Ah, I have something similar in my Thunderbird, and it is also the Github notifications folder 😅

@domo A singular cop would be a "politieagent" (or, colloquially and more commonly, "agent", as that word is rarely used for anything else anyway), and so the plural would be "politieagenten" or "agenten".

@venite "Dat is extreem veel geld, maar zoveel is er geïnvesteerd."

Wat een onzinargument ook. Je hebt gewoon jarenlang kunnen profiteren van die investeringen, dus dan moet je niet ineens proberen om de hele investering terug te claimen. Kom op nou.

@domo In Dutch, "politie" refers to the institution rather than being the plural of cop. It's an uncountable noun of sorts, and therefore uses singular forms of verbs.