Stroggy, how come when I talk to somebody from Holland, they don't know what a snotvalling is, while everybody that speaks Dutch and is from Belgium knows what it is? Or when an American whom I've taught the expression Slukes, which's understood in whole Dutch-speaking Belgium, said it to somebody from Holland and got a Huh? What's that? in return? Even tighter... why do you think on Belgian television, they subtitle those that speak West-Flemish? It's officially the same language.
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