Marathon sign in front of leiden central station in the morning vs. in the evening 🙃

I dislike the current trend in Dutch speakers to say "dat is waar" instead of "dat klopt" for "that's true", because: 1. It sounds weird 2. When people calque the interjection(?) 'true', they just say "waar", which makes them seem confused about some sort of whereabouts. "klopt" already exists!!

It's fascinating that Dutch preserves the dental fricative in the word 'thuis' (home)! Surely its regular reflex should be 'duis' 🤔🤔🤔

My mom just said to our cat in Tutkidh 'neden buurmaŋa hhhh yabdıŋ?' (why did you khhh at your neighbor?), where 'buurmaŋa' is the Dutch word 'buurman' that's been reanalyzed as buurma-n (neighbour-2SG.POSS) with the dative suffix -a. I know this isn't just 'buurman' in the dative because of...

Movies and tv shows should be subtitled in IPA so that deaf/hard of hearing people can experience all the linguistic nuances of the characters' accents ☝️