• pastermilOP
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    1 month ago

    You know, a few hundred years ago, they respect the barriers even less.

    Especially to their colonies.

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          Possibly, but the distinction here is that the differentiation of Dutch and German didn’t happen that long ago, and this would be a lot more obvious if the German dialects that are closest to Dutch weren’t nearly dead.