What does that even mean?
It's easy to assume it doesn't mean "I am Sterdam" (if ever I have a child named Sterdam, you can bet he's getting those shirts), but then it's also easy to assume that Amsterdam isn't a verb. I think it means to say "I am Amsterdam" but that's not as catchy. Who needs grammar? When you have turned a proper noun into a verb, catchiness is all that matters.
It's easy to assume it doesn't mean "I am Sterdam" (if ever I have a child named Sterdam, you can bet he's getting those shirts), but then it's also easy to assume that Amsterdam isn't a verb. I think it means to say "I am Amsterdam" but that's not as catchy. Who needs grammar? When you have turned a proper noun into a verb, catchiness is all that matters.
We went to see Gabby's friend for a couple days in Amsterdam.
I enjoyed not one, but TWO museums. The Van Gogh Museum (by the way, you've been saying his name wrong your whole life) and the sex museum. The Van Gogh Museum cost more and didn't allow photography (pfffft). I think my favorite part about it was that in The Van Gogh Museum there was a literal paperweight that cost 119 Euros. I mused about buying it just so, when people asked me what it is, I could say "just an expensive paperweight, basically."
I can assure you that I observed everything in the sex museum with scholarly reverence (look naked people! hahaha!), but no seriously there was some really interesting stuff in there.
It basically just proved that the only difference between our sex crazed culture and that of our great-grandparents is that they didn't have the internet (read: did have the common sense not) to publicize it to everyone.
There was an erotic painting inside a frame that had two slots. The erotic painting was behind a mundane painting of a forest. So, when your mother left (wondering what she did to cause you to have such a boring art life), you could go back to being a heathen.
It was a simpler time.
So... How do the Dutch say 'Van Go'?
ReplyDeleteIt's difficult to put into text the sound they do with the "g." IPA style it's kind of like /x/. Like when German says "dich" only harder.
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