Comment by FranzFerdiNaN
3 hours ago
As a Dutch person i find Afrikaans always interesting whenever i happen to encounter it in the wild. As if a common ancestor took a very different evolutionary path.
3 hours ago
As a Dutch person i find Afrikaans always interesting whenever i happen to encounter it in the wild. As if a common ancestor took a very different evolutionary path.
Given that Dutch is the ancestor here (not that Dutch hasn't changed since the split), I wouldn't call it "as if".