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speaking a germanic language* is great because you can see some shit like “Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen” and be like ”ahh, Förenade Nederlänska Utgivarien”

* english doesn't count sorry

while i'm at it. i can't believe germans and dutch people really will call a library a “bookery”* like that's normal and not a silly name someone would make up for their hipster bookstore/pub/café

* boekerij, Bücherei

@hikari Dutch for library is 'bibliotheek', it's like a discotheque but for books!

@Tijn every good language calls it a Bibliothek so that one doesn't stand out to me, though it is funny that discotheque came from it. it makes you imagine a library filled with vinyl discs

@hikari Back when VHS was still a thing, we called video rental places a "videotheek" too 😅

@Tijn (1970's voice) in the future, we will get software from the floppydiskotheek

(2000's voice) in the future, we will watch movies from the Blu-ray Discotheek

@hikari @Tijn the discotheek as a place where you can borrow music (I've only seen it in the CD era) was indeed a thing here. The music venues are always the shorter "disco".

@hikari I'm sorry but I have to because I'll never learn how to write Bibliothek

@hikari Then again “libra-ry” is just “bookery” but they used Latin instead of English for no good reason.