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Sat, 07 Dec 2024 23:29:33 +0100

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Toegeven dat je een verkeerde afweging hebt gemaakt, is een goede keuze. Beter ten halve gekeerd dan ten hele gedwaald.

Ik hoop dat drie partijen in de huidige coalitie hier een voorbeeld aan nemen, en publiekelijk toegeven dat in zee gaan met #fascisten een verkeerde inschatting was.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2547448-sp-leider-dijk-stemmen-voor-motie-becker-was-verkeerde-afweging

#MotieBecker #SP

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Sun, 08 Dec 2024 12:22:30 +0100

Elias Schwerdtfeger

elijahu@pod.geraspora.de

I like reading Dutch. For me, thinking in German, it looks very familar, but most words are not that similar to German and lead to false associations, which are funny. To me, "afweging" sounds so "abwegig" (an old German word meaning "absurd", but literally something like "away from the path"). And that fits amazingly well.

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:58:35 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Elias Schwerdtfeger Oh yes, German and Dutch are very similar, but there are a lot of weird differences.

I like reading German too, I follow quite a few German writing accounts on the Fredi for that.

Most of those "false friends", as such apparently identical but very different words are sometimes called, have the same origin.

But not in this case, I think. "Afweging" comes from the verb "wegen": weigh.

"Abwegig" comes from the noun "Weg": way/road.

An informal but popular way to express the German "abwegig" is "van het padje", meaning "off the path", pretty much the same 😎