hyves

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[–] hyves@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In Dutch, "haai" (shark) sounds very similar to "hi" (the English word), same for "hooi" (hay) and "hoi" (hi). Which leads to this hilarious comic I saw once where a shark meets a bale of hay ^edit:^ ^somehow^ ^I^ ^typed^ ^bay^ ^of^ ^hale^

[–] hyves@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

At least here in the Netherlands, there was a lot of commotion because a data centre tried to buy a windmill park meant to power households as their dedicated power source

[–] hyves@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

In Dutch we only talk about turning screws clockwise and counterclockwise

[–] hyves@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He has a bunch of English ones on his website as well. Some of them are just the dumbest, least translatable puns though (in a good way).

For this one the joke even only works in Flemish (not Dutch).