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Funny! In dutch it is possible to talk for 20 minutes in proverbs/sayings, make perfect sense and not repeat a single one.

They're also all untranslatable.

For instance:

He must have been hit by a windmill.

Or:

He has been pulled out of the clay.

In English they make no sense at all.




Ah so that's what the Fleet Foxes album cover is - http://www.mtv.co.uk/files//library/images/album_covers_2008...

Sorry, off topic.


Amazing how many of them have made it in to modern Dutch / Flemish.




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