Comments by "Jasper Mooren" (@jaspermooren5883) on "" video.

Most people in a lot of European countries find Starbucks to be an affront to tastebuds. In Italy, taking Starbucks is pretty much a hate crime.
64
@montro2220 No you only get yelled at by cyclists if you actually jump in front of them. Cyclists pretty much all the time have a kind of suggested right of way in the Netherlands compared to foot traffic, even when they technically don't (and usually they even techically do have right of way). Because it's exhausting when you cycling to constantly have to stop and start moving again, whereas on foot it's not an issue at all. So you never cross paths with a cyclist when you're walking, you go around or stop. But most tourists don't have the spacial awareness to actually see where all the cyclists are going, which is understandable, the only reason practically every Dutch person has it, is years of constant exposure to cyclists on cyclepaths everywhere. Dutch people learn this as small kids. Luckily I don't live in Amsterdam, but I've yelled at some unsuspecting tourists in my time anyway.
2
@BabzV Technically we only have the umlaut in loanwords in Dutch. We do have the 'trema' which is written down the same way (like o-trema would be ö and o-umlaut would be ö), but has a different function. The Dutch use it very differently. Naïef is an example of the usage, where the second vowel is not composite, but actually a new syllable, and the ï is used to notate that it's na-ief, rather than nai-ef. But it's not like in German where it changes the vowel sound, we use extra letters for that. Like instead of having o and ö, we have o and oo. So while "überhaupt" has an umlaut (because it's a German loanword), "ideeën" doesn't, it has a trema, it indicates where the syllables split.
1
@Brinta3 Yeah but than you can visit the US and Canada also in 5 min with that logic, just start just before the border and cross it, job done.
1
@Apoc_Zzz How to spot the Dutch person. They say wauw in an English sentince :P
1