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Russian goes free thanks to Google translation error
A Russian trucker in Dordrecht involved in a bar brawl was released because the summons he received was poorly translated from Dutch into Russian using Google translate. When the trucker was being...
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24oranges celebrates Russia -The Netherlands 2013
In addition to a year chocked full of serious cultural activities that feature the Russian-Dutch connection, 24oranges proudly presents some articles you might have missed that have a bit of the...
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Gas extraction reports should be available in Dutch
A group of residents from Groningen are demanding that Minister Kamp of Economic Affairs translate all English-language reports about gas extraction, something that concerns many home owners, into...
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Special specs with live subtitles for hard of hearing
Together with the help of engineer Michiel van Overbeek who himself is hard of hearing language researcher Niels Schiller of Leiden University developed a pair of glasses that provides live subtitles...
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Dunglish fest on major Dutch online shop
It’s true that many non-Dutch people don’t buy from Dutch online shop Bol.com because their products are often more expensive than ‘that other website we all use’ and it’s all in Dutch. However,...
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Cheesiest slogans of 2017 up for vote
Yes, 2016 had a real winner with ‘Zit je haircut’. Pronounce ‘hair’ in English and ‘cut’ (‘kut’) in Dutch, the latter being the word for what the Brits call the ‘c-bomb’, but in this case means...
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German series to be dubbed into Dutch, first time
For anyone living in the Netherlands who watches Dutch television, it’s not news that all kinds of American, Canadian and other foreign series are subtitled in Dutch instead of being dubbed over. And...
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The Duck Guy’s book available in German
Kees Moeliker, ornithologist and curator of the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, who was awarded an IgNobel back in 2003 — the tongue-in-cheek awards of Improbable Research — for writing about...
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Cheesiest slogans of 2018 are up for vote
It’s that time again, time for cringeworthy bad slogans, and much like in 2016 (see link below), we’ve got a fun one in the running from a barbershop in Laren: ‘We do women, but we don’t cut their...
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Time to vote for the Worst Dutch Slogans of 2020
Regardless of the state the world’s in, some things march on, and one of those things is voting on the worst Dutch slogans of 2020. There are 10 in the running, but let’s pick the raisins out of the...
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