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So you want to do a Dutch accent. I get it, it's a funny accent to make fun of. But there is one feature that Dutch doesn't have: sh everywhere. That's a rare sound in Dutch. It mainly exists English loan words, that's right, you are the ones saying sh. In actual Dutch words, there are some rare cases where an s-j combo can assimilate into the sh sound (such as the name Sjaak) but that's not a phoneme.
"But I hear you guys saying that sh sound" you might say. You're not hearing it. What you're hearing is a retracted s, which has a lower pitch, but it doesn't really have that "shushing" sound of an sh. It's not produced by blowing air between the tongue and the roof of the mouth, so it's not an sh. Only the tip of the tongue should go up, near the alveolar ridge. Go practice, or use a regular plain old English s, but sh sounds extremely non-Dutch.
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So who are all these CodeProject geeks who are making fun of your language? Shander Rossel[^] maybe?
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Shirley you meant Shander Rosshel. 
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There's a double "s", so it's actually Shander Roshshell. 
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3rd times the charm! 
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Well, I'm Dutch, and I think Dutch is a terrible language 
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Are you mocking my lishp? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Why is there an s in lisp it's so unfair
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Why is disleck... dysslekc... dyslexia so hard to spell?
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I have sex daily dyslexia
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Shh! I'm going to steal that for tomorrow's CCC.
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Leslie would solve it in a nanosecond. I used it years ago, and I don't think that was the first. My favourite anagram.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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So how you quieten the kids down if you can't go Shhhh!
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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They don't; they send them out to check the dikes... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: check the dikes
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If you've never had your finger in a ... I'm going to stop there ... 
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Oh chit!
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Slowly backs away
I guess that's a thing?
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Yes; Goldmember sounded more Shwedish than Dutch.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Did he? 
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I thought we did the sh thing for Shane Connery. Sho Mish Moneypenny, thish is a shubmission from M.
Tell me you didn't jusht read that in his voice.
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What on earth brought this post on?
Are you hallchnating again?
going deaf in NOLA
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There is a story behind this actually. You're probably not really going to care about it, but since you asked..
Sometimes people post that clip of Adam Hills doing his "Dutch accent". I always thought it just made no sense, he just doesn't know what he's doing or something. Then I heard that sh-thing elsewhere too, but I still didn't think too much of it, just a random weird thing that people do, maybe imitating each others fake Dutch accents instead of actual Dutch accents. But then I recently learned about that retracted-S thing, actually in the context of ancient Greek and Latin (original pronunciation, not liturgical), and it all clicked. I had to post, because people are wrong on the internet, and I won't let that stand.
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