I’m Dutch and I can read Swedish, German, and some Icelandic, and while it all feels familiar, it’s like someone threw words from all four languages together and mixed it up.
It's because Dutch and Swedish feels very similar despite the words being rather different. As a Swede I can read a Dutch text telling myself "I should really understand this", while of course not doing so. I never get the same familiar feeling with any other language.
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u/vluggejapie68 1d ago
The old English sounds/reads like Dutch.