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(Mis)representation of language in Hollywood movies
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For all we know, Oppenheimer spoke the same ‘fluent’ Dutch in real life too. People would only see him talk fluent Dutch because they didn’t speak Dutch.
Does anyone actually speak fluent Dutch? Is it even possible to speak fluent Dutch? We may never know
Joost mag het weten.
While it is possible for others who do not speak the language to be sufficiently fooled into believing he spoke it fluently, it would be really weird if a university lecturer would give lectures in a nonexistent language without anyone commenting on it.