Proto Germanic / Germanic Languages Similarities

Just write :

Hier is een exempel of hauw Englisch wut loek lijk , had it een orthografie witsch was ...

!, Well, then obviously all the people who I've talked to about spelling reform matters who said that such looked like Dutch (without being asked about whether such looked like such, either) (who weren't all native English-speakers either, and included some Germans and Dutch if I recall correctly) must be incorrect then...

Of course, the reason why they've said it looks a lot like Dutch is simply due to the predominance of "aa", "ee", "oo", and "ie", and the use of "sj" and "tj" for /S/ and /tS/ respectively only adds to this overall. However, beyond that, I myself would actually say that it doesn't look that much like Dutch, all things considered, and contrary to what some others have said.

Travis ,

Don't try to 'beat' me in Dutch ,
I am a native speaker, so you really don't have a chance...

I didn't say that I was "trying" in the first place, heh. The similarities between said provisional orthography and Dutch orthography stem from some common design aspects between the two, but the two are in no fashion the same (despite some thinking it looks like Dutch).

The Norwegian word for fever: feber

Dete eer woerdan norsk vile haa set eeuwt mee neederlandsk ortoegraafie
This is how Norwegian would have looked with Dutch ortography.
Except that the Norwegian -u (something between French -ou and German -ü) does not exist in Dutch, I think. Here I wrote -eeuw

In Norwegian we say hold a poll "blant" = among..., but I know that it is "unter" in German.
among ourselves = unter uns = blant oss selv

Travis,

Your "Dutch" looked more like bad spelled fonetical dutch to me.still it looked more like english than dutch to me ...

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=>Hier is een exempel of hauw Englisch wut loek lijk , had it een orthografie witsch was ...<=

Your still to english....I think it would be more this...

Hier is an eksempel of hauw Inglisch woet loek lijk ,hed it un ortoraphie witschj was....

Dont you think ???

Well , it all depends on what region you come from ....

Sander, actually, it was other people who'd said it looked like Dutch, originally, not myself (for some reason, people seem to think that something is Dutch if it 1) looks like a germanic language and 2) has lots of doubled vowel symbols).

I know I got your intencion in your first message...

IJ noow IJ ghot joor intensjon in joor furst message...

We do have that letter in Dutch the " Ü " its in the word Überhaupt ,I know looks german (it is) but we use it in dutch (constantly)

In which words do you use the ü? And how do you spell it?

To my knowledge, "ü" is used in nederlands in loanwords from Deutsch, not for native words, besides the use of a diaeresis in nederlands in somecases (and such a diaeresis could end up on a "u", but mind you that such is not the same character orthographically as "u" with an umlaut, even though it's the same actual symbol). However, don't call me on this one, as I don't speak nederlands.