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As a native speaker I would say Dutch is a very functional and serious language. So serious that any attempt of writing a piece of fiction in Dutch results in a laughable piece of cringe inducing word vomit, with sentences and utterances feeling so forced that every single word had to be stapled to the paper.
As another native speaker, I think that’s on you. Or maybe you’re reading the wrong stuff.
Dutch allows for a lot of creativity. Take compositions, for example. English really struggles with making new words out of existing ones, everything is truncated. Words are islands. Whereas German goes way too far with it, stringing six words into one. Dutch had a beautiful balance: lots of creativity, without becoming too complex.
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