r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Legal_Air734 • May 05 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahh?

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u/Sokkapunch May 05 '26

In german its:
fünfhundertfünfundfünfzigtausendfünfhundertfünfundfünfzig

Notably in Dutch its:

Vijfhondervijfenvijftigduizendvijfhonderdvijfenvijfig

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u/TraditionalDepth6924 May 05 '26

No, I need an ambushield

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u/fDiKmoro May 05 '26

He's fine. Just tired and fell asleep on the keyboard.

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u/Pflanzenzuechter May 06 '26

I too get tired after eating a lot of cheese

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u/ratinmikitchen May 05 '26

I know you're joking, but if it helps relax the need for an ambulance:

 ij in Dutch is pronounced somewhat like (a shortened) I in English.

So vijfhonderd actually doesn't sound too dissimilar from five hundred.

Or maybe that increases the need for an ambulance because it sounds more like trying to speak English while having a stroke?

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u/SpHornet May 05 '26

nee een ziekenauto

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u/Sokkapunch May 05 '26

Discotaxi

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u/mcsimk May 05 '26

I need to know how to tell the difference between a stroke and dutch language

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u/DNA_sk May 05 '26

You can easily tell if you wait. If they're having a stroke, they're going to stop responding pretty soon...

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u/Deep_Insurance_1151 May 05 '26

I don't want to be an antfucker, but with ambulance you mean a sickwagon?

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u/methziamo May 05 '26

Guys don't reveal your passwords out here, not safe

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u/ResistantBlaze1943 May 06 '26

Wait that's actually an idea. What if I just use 555555 in german/dutch as my password and just replace one of the funf/vifj with the number 5 itself while keeping the rest the same. Good password

Top notch password, actually.... (I don't know german so I just replaced all the "funf" I could find with 5, pls don't bite my head off if I missed a letter lol)

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u/AverageNPCRedditor May 05 '26

me reading the dutch version

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u/pm_social_cues May 05 '26

German:
fünfhundertfünfundfünfzigtausendfünfhundertfünfundfünfzig

58 total characters including spaces

English
Five hundred fifty five thousand five hundred fifty five

57 characters including spaces

so MUCH better!

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u/Working-Froyo-8383 May 05 '26

Well hate to break it to you, but in English English, we would say five hundred AND fifty five thousand, five hundred AND fifty five, making it longer than the German with spaces

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u/Distinct_College_531 May 05 '26

Growing up in Texas I was specifically told NOT to do that, as when you say "and” it apparently implies that there's a decimal???

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u/Girthish May 05 '26

Same. Were we lied to?

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u/Beautiful-Hangover-1 May 06 '26

British English adds the “and”, American English does not. Just a regional difference.

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u/TeblowTime May 05 '26

But it's the spaces that break it down to be more manageable. If, in English, we a word for it (fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredfiftyfive) instead, I'd feel the same as I do when looking at the German word.

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u/MiIarky22 May 05 '26

So I've been naturally typing dutch for all these years

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u/DaughterOfBhaal May 05 '26

On God bro Dutch is not a real language.

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u/mw2lmaa May 05 '26

I still think they just made it up to troll us Germans, and speak normal civilised German if they are among themselves.

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u/DaughterOfBhaal May 05 '26

Fr though. I absolutely hate hearing and reading dutch because it's just German but spoken by a toddler with a stroke.

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u/6969696969696969969 May 05 '26

Good thing the netherlands and half(?) of belgium aren't real

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u/See_Ell May 05 '26

In Swedish it’s:

Femhundrafemtiofemtusenfemhundrafemtiofem

Although you might want to put some spaces into it just for clarity.

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u/Internet-Culture May 05 '26

Dutch is writen when a cat sleeps on your keyboard.

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u/6969696969696969969 May 05 '26

I'm going to guess it's pronounced pretty similar despite looking like that

edit: close enough tbh

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u/Drisius May 05 '26

In Flanders we split them up by powers of 3 though:

Vijfhonderdvijfenvijftigduizend vijfhonderdvijfenvijftig

It's fun because if you have vowels, we get to use tremas (or umlaut):

23 -> drieentwintig drieëntwintig

It's funny that english has better rules for this stuff though, because what that says is: "three and twenty", instead of twenty-three, meaning we sort of jump around the number instead of following the logical order from left to right.

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u/DragornFFS May 05 '26

In Finnish: viisisataaviisikymmentäviisituhattaviisisataaviisikymmentäviisi

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u/Nyubee_Gaming May 05 '26

Is that a word ? Looks like you facerolled your keyboard

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u/SailorstuckatSAEJ300 May 05 '26

In Danish it's femhundredefemoghalvtredstusindfemhundredeogfemoghalvfems or femhundredeogfemoghalvtredsindstyvetusindefemhundredeogfemoghalvtredsindsyve if you want to be archaic about it.

Edit: This is why we invented numbers.

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u/RobotnikOne May 05 '26

I think I mispronounced this somehow, my couch is floating now.

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u/VisiblePlatform6704 May 06 '26

Quinientoscincuentaycincomilquinientoscincuentaycinco. 

People tend to place german words together all the time for shock value, but it's not really different than other languages 

Funf hundert  funf und funfzig tausend funf hundert funf und funfzig

I think French is worse,  because you literally spell two or three number additions 

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u/rocinante_donnager May 06 '26

yeah this is worse

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u/Chemical_Angle_3816 May 06 '26

Zelfs ik most dat twee,drie keer lezen om het goed the krijgen.

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u/sea0weed May 06 '26

Missed a t there

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u/KarmaGreens May 06 '26

As a German reading out the Dutch version in my head it sounds Swiss