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Comment by vidarh

3 days ago

Eddie Izzard speaking old English to a Frisian farmer:

https://youtu.be/OeC1yAaWG34?si=lkoQ--uZNN8Ntpqy

As a Norwegian who speaks English and school-German, Dutch is fairly easy to read but sounds like you're speaking a mix of English, Norse and German with a mouthful of gravel (similar to the Danish, who Norwegians like to say speaks Norwegian with a potato in their mouth)

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