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HoeBag · 51-55, F
@popmol Oh shoot sorry about that. No I just said Rouvroy is close to Belgium. Plus a few other friends but those two are ones I get along with best. We talk on the phone often.
If I may ask, where you originally from or maybe lived most of your life?
Also it is good to see you back, I guess you were on hiatus for a bit.
If I may ask, where you originally from or maybe lived most of your life?
Also it is good to see you back, I guess you were on hiatus for a bit.
popmol · 26-30, M
@HoeBag haha i know, some french i understood like it being close to belgium the rest i translated, well i know mes amies qui habitent. like i know some words and can catch context from those.
i'm from belgium, born in my parents house, and lived there for the last 26 years, now moving 15 minutes away with the bike but still in the same city.
this all however is around antwerp in the northern part of belgium meaning we speak "flemish" which is a different form of dutch! i t hink we'll understand 95% of each others basic speech, but when talking thick or heavy Flemish and using expressions and such it will go to about a 80% with the dutch form the netherlands.
it is lovely to see you too. suddenly my body just said no more SW and the longer i stayed away the harder it was to come back.
it is sad though, a good friend of mine left the website and was being bullied, however she left her email but hasn't responded so i'm quite sad but i'll keep trying!
and just when i came back lilymoon was leaving which was another heavy blow!
its also less fun, since so little people answer my posts and i don't see much news on my feed.
i wish they didn't do what they did in the past and just kept it to friends first then the rest. because its probably something in my settings of my feed that i don't see them, but if they were just buttons it would be better.
i'm from belgium, born in my parents house, and lived there for the last 26 years, now moving 15 minutes away with the bike but still in the same city.
this all however is around antwerp in the northern part of belgium meaning we speak "flemish" which is a different form of dutch! i t hink we'll understand 95% of each others basic speech, but when talking thick or heavy Flemish and using expressions and such it will go to about a 80% with the dutch form the netherlands.
it is lovely to see you too. suddenly my body just said no more SW and the longer i stayed away the harder it was to come back.
it is sad though, a good friend of mine left the website and was being bullied, however she left her email but hasn't responded so i'm quite sad but i'll keep trying!
and just when i came back lilymoon was leaving which was another heavy blow!
its also less fun, since so little people answer my posts and i don't see much news on my feed.
i wish they didn't do what they did in the past and just kept it to friends first then the rest. because its probably something in my settings of my feed that i don't see them, but if they were just buttons it would be better.
HoeBag · 51-55, F
@popmol I do not think anyone is real happy with the feed. Certain people get most of the attention, probably the VIPs and some of the bots.
Adjusting settings doesn't help anything. I think those are just inactive switches. But yeah I have noticed that even if I interact with certain people often, their threads still do not show up in my feed so then I would have to go to their profile to see their latest threads. But THEN for some odd reason, some people block just for visiting their profile or responding to someone that someone else is jealous of, etc.
You cannot win on here. Everything we do, no matter what, is wrong, block-worthy, etc.
I have had a few friends on here come and go. Some get fed up, some run into serious problems with other members, some of them whatever.
One of them left and I wonder if the real reason was because she wanted to be in the "in crowd" but didn't quite make it.
I guess social media really does have ways of ruining a person's self-esteem. How THIS forum decides who matters and who doesn't, God knows.
I know who Lilymoon is, her and I have spoke in passing.
Language stuff though - So Dutch is your first and English second, or vice versa?
Here in America, our nation's second language is Spanish, of course I speak only a few words of it.
Adjusting settings doesn't help anything. I think those are just inactive switches. But yeah I have noticed that even if I interact with certain people often, their threads still do not show up in my feed so then I would have to go to their profile to see their latest threads. But THEN for some odd reason, some people block just for visiting their profile or responding to someone that someone else is jealous of, etc.
You cannot win on here. Everything we do, no matter what, is wrong, block-worthy, etc.
I have had a few friends on here come and go. Some get fed up, some run into serious problems with other members, some of them whatever.
One of them left and I wonder if the real reason was because she wanted to be in the "in crowd" but didn't quite make it.
I guess social media really does have ways of ruining a person's self-esteem. How THIS forum decides who matters and who doesn't, God knows.
I know who Lilymoon is, her and I have spoke in passing.
Language stuff though - So Dutch is your first and English second, or vice versa?
Here in America, our nation's second language is Spanish, of course I speak only a few words of it.
popmol · 26-30, M
@HoeBag sad ;( i hope it was only me so i could fix it somehow ;(
yeah some characters have me blocked although they talk on my posts which is weird. i think its because they banned "people at a certain age" i think.
haha i only block if i'm really sick of someone or ask them for them to stop and they don't stop. i mean sometimes perverts talk to me here and i talk back but when i'm done i just say, i'm done, sorry please stop talking to me about this. and most often it works.
ooh yeah its sad when they leave though ;(
ooh yeah some people who seem more important and some who don't, i was kinda in the IT group when we were on EP, sincei joined so young i was everyones little brother!
she was lovely :)
Dutch is the primary language in the flemish part of belgium.
in the wallon side(the south) their primary is french or wallon.
but on both sides the 2 primary languages are dutch and french and techincally our third language is german, a part of our country we gained from germany after WW1
but i don't take well to french but english came super easy.
so yeah my native language is dutch, my secondary language is english, and in the future i'll try french to be able to talk to family.
well i also wanted to say in school they teach your french from 5 and 6th year right before highschool. in highschool we get french and english or french and german and some even better schools french german and english.
yeah some characters have me blocked although they talk on my posts which is weird. i think its because they banned "people at a certain age" i think.
haha i only block if i'm really sick of someone or ask them for them to stop and they don't stop. i mean sometimes perverts talk to me here and i talk back but when i'm done i just say, i'm done, sorry please stop talking to me about this. and most often it works.
ooh yeah its sad when they leave though ;(
ooh yeah some people who seem more important and some who don't, i was kinda in the IT group when we were on EP, sincei joined so young i was everyones little brother!
she was lovely :)
Dutch is the primary language in the flemish part of belgium.
in the wallon side(the south) their primary is french or wallon.
but on both sides the 2 primary languages are dutch and french and techincally our third language is german, a part of our country we gained from germany after WW1
but i don't take well to french but english came super easy.
so yeah my native language is dutch, my secondary language is english, and in the future i'll try french to be able to talk to family.
well i also wanted to say in school they teach your french from 5 and 6th year right before highschool. in highschool we get french and english or french and german and some even better schools french german and english.
HoeBag · 51-55, F
@popmolEven though I know nothing about Dutch, I can kind of see how English would be easier to learn than French for a Dutch speaker. English, German, and Dutch kind of bear closer resemblances to each other than to French. Just based on my very limited exposure to Dutch and German.
French has some grammar concepts that are, "different".
I did learn though that the first part of my username means "How" in Dutch. Just playing around with google translate. In English though, it is something a little more impolite. 😄
Now about people of a certain age getting blocked by default, I wouldn't think a 26 to 30 would be. Typically it is the under 18 crowd or people over maybe 60 or 70. But who knows, people block for anything or nothing. I block only if it is a constant pest or if they are over the top MAGA fans.
With learning languages though, I just study French for now, I mostly study and listen to youtbe videos for that. I am not fluent yet. I am at the stage where I "Kind of understand the point" (on a good day) but not every word.
French has some grammar concepts that are, "different".
I did learn though that the first part of my username means "How" in Dutch. Just playing around with google translate. In English though, it is something a little more impolite. 😄
Now about people of a certain age getting blocked by default, I wouldn't think a 26 to 30 would be. Typically it is the under 18 crowd or people over maybe 60 or 70. But who knows, people block for anything or nothing. I block only if it is a constant pest or if they are over the top MAGA fans.
With learning languages though, I just study French for now, I mostly study and listen to youtbe videos for that. I am not fluent yet. I am at the stage where I "Kind of understand the point" (on a good day) but not every word.
popmol · 26-30, M
@HoeBag well you see, english is technically the easiest to get for a belgian.
since our primary languages are dutch and french they are really good at figuring out english.
since english is a combination of french and a germanic language and also a celtic language.
and the dutch from flanders since were part of so many countries but one of our last was the french and our fancy words came form the french the same as english did.
so things like chair we know due to chaise from french, but stool we know from the dutch stoel.
so the way fancy words are written is easier for me at least, loads of belgians are better at french than english i have noticed!
haha i know hoe, it indeed means how in dutch. sadly bag has no meaning here. a hoe is the farming tool or well yes the impolite term, although it seems less impolite than other similar insults 😋
a fun word for us is "die" which means "that" or "that one" so a child can say die die die! which means somethign else to you guys :)
theres many profiles i can't watch but they comment on post from all kinds of ages so yeah i don't know really.
i would also not think its my age.
maybe theres a way of doing a "light ban" where you can still see them in the wild but not on your page?
thats already a good place to be! like the thing you send to me i kinda understood parts of it since i knew some of the words.
but i had terrible french teachers! but my plan is to get french lessons once i have a job to learn the language!
since our primary languages are dutch and french they are really good at figuring out english.
since english is a combination of french and a germanic language and also a celtic language.
and the dutch from flanders since were part of so many countries but one of our last was the french and our fancy words came form the french the same as english did.
so things like chair we know due to chaise from french, but stool we know from the dutch stoel.
so the way fancy words are written is easier for me at least, loads of belgians are better at french than english i have noticed!
haha i know hoe, it indeed means how in dutch. sadly bag has no meaning here. a hoe is the farming tool or well yes the impolite term, although it seems less impolite than other similar insults 😋
a fun word for us is "die" which means "that" or "that one" so a child can say die die die! which means somethign else to you guys :)
theres many profiles i can't watch but they comment on post from all kinds of ages so yeah i don't know really.
i would also not think its my age.
maybe theres a way of doing a "light ban" where you can still see them in the wild but not on your page?
thats already a good place to be! like the thing you send to me i kinda understood parts of it since i knew some of the words.
but i had terrible french teachers! but my plan is to get french lessons once i have a job to learn the language!