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Cowboys and Indonesians

Unusually for European languages, Dutch has retained the word “Indisch” as the demonym for the former East Indies and people are always mistranslating it as “Indian”.

Posted byMike WilkinsonSeptember 4, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Cultural, Mistranslations, Valse vriendenTags:dunglish, engels, Indisch, Indonesisch, VOC1 Comment on Cowboys and Indonesians

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