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Selkie Welkie's avatar

Happy pal-entynsdag pal 😋 May you be free from patriarchal heteronormativity zoete ♥️ (im listening to the whole thing loool!)

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Risha Lötter's avatar

Selkieeeee! As always, it makes me so happy to hear from you.

Also, hold on for another hour or so and hopefully the English will be out.

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Selkie Welkie's avatar

Loool ill listen back to back! Im trying to work out words 🤪 voorvader - forefather 💚

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Risha Lötter's avatar

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I can't believe you're doing. And how's it sounding? Difference in energy?

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Selkie Welkie's avatar

Loool I loved it. Ancient germanic language vibes. Thats how english would have been were it not for the normans. Always fascinates me. But Aftikaans isnt always the most beautiful sound - a bit like a talking aardvark! 😋♥️

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Risha Lötter's avatar

Hahaha! Yes I’ve been told all the throat-sounds, rolling gs and rs, can be quite harsh on a foreign ear. I think I may even have felt the same, as a child, before falling in love with these very sounds. How fascinating that our concept of beauty, which we often think is at least somewhat universal/objective, is so entirely formed by our exposures.

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Selkie Welkie's avatar

The guttural sounds were.. interesting! I didnt find them attractive, but certainly they play their part.

Anyway I enjoy a Dutch inspired aesthetic always. On with the show, Ms. Van Foyken! 💚

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