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Moving on! For a long time now we've had the feeling that the Dutch language actually is just completely nonsense.
Yes!
Our theory is that Dutch is not really a language, you can just speak your native language....
....like Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or whatever, and put on some (....) endings....
....and it'll be totally understandable in The Netherlands, they understand it.
Yes, and we wanted to put this theory to the test, so we went to Sweden...
....and booked in some interpretors for a fake TV show we arranged for this occasion.
And you were supposed to be Dutch?
Yes, I was the invited guest expert, Jaap Westerdiijk.
You were going to talk about clogs. Do you know any Dutch at all?
I really can't speak any Dutch.
So here's some Swedish interpretors for you, trying their very best to interpret some completly incomprehensible Dutch.
Welcome!
Oh, yes, look at this! Great!
I'm the interpretor.
Interpretor. -OK.
This is an interpretor at work.
Are we ready? - I'm ready.
3-2....
Our guest today is a Dutch cultural scientist, this is Jaap Westerdiijk, welcome!
Thank you. - Let's talk about these clogs.
Could you give us some background history?
Regarding these clogs, could you give us some background history?
Traditions ..... 100 years (gibberish)
I'm sorry.... Could he repeat that?
You are speaking Dutch? - Yes.
Ehhh......... yes, well.....
I didn't catch all of that, could you please speak a little clearer?
I didn't understand a word. - No word?
Yes, well, you could say that there's been big investments made in the clog business......
Clogs, what's the origin of the clogs?
What's the origin of this clog tradition?
Textile industry ..... general strike.... 28 (gibberish)
So it was a general strike in the.... - No, general STRIKE!
Strike? - Mhm.
It started with a strike in the textile industry.
With just one word, how would you describe the Dutch art and culture import within the last year?
One word? - One word!
(gibberish)
(....) ..that's something cool, great, super.
Is this German or French or....?
Well, it's an expletive, as simple as that. Something really great, something like that.
(gibberish)
Klaus..... Doctor..... cancer (gibberish)
Yes, so this is Maria and Klaus, they have.... Do they wear costumes?
Yes. - So they wear clothes, and then Maria says to Klaus that she's got cancer.