re: #42 McSpiff

Oddly enough I’d probably have an easier time picking out racial slurs than normal conversational Dutch. Ah junior high…

Don’t try to pick up everything as a racial slur - our sense of humor is possibly a bit coarser than the US-american, and we use some words that indicate racism in English, but are normal part of our polite vocab. For example, the dutch word ‘neger’, obviously resembles ‘n*****’ - however, in dutch this actually mean ‘black person’. However, don’t refer to someone as a ‘black person’, as that (at least to me) would be a racial slur… it’s not easy to discriminate these things if you haven’t spend a reasonable time in the country I guess.