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    23 days ago

    The English translation of ‘stukkie wukkie’ would surely be the train is ‘stuck’?

    I’m not a Dane though so could be wrong.

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      23 days ago

      The English translation of ‘stukkie wukkie’ would surely be the train is ‘stuck’?

      Google translates “stukkie wukkie” as “piece of shit” or “wonky”, depending on other nearby words, and “stukkie” as “broken”. but neither of these words is in a dutch dictionary afaict. And google doesn’t translate anything i tried to those words.

      I’m not a Dane though so could be wrong.

      Dutch is the language (and demonym) of the Netherlands.

      Dane is the demonym for people from Denmark, where they speak the Danish language.

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        23 days ago

        Oops. Replying on mobile is annoying sometimes because you can only see the comment you’re directly replying to, and not the OOP (at least in the app I’m using). So I had to hold ‘Dutch’ in my brain and by the time I’d finished my reply, I’d misremembered Dutch to Danish - hence Dane. Apologies.