random thought: those of you who speak Dutch, how intelligible is Afrikaans to you? I know they're really similar languages.
@Thaminga Similar to the relationship between Scots and English, or a bit more distant than that?
@Felthry Sorta like that, though obviously the actual circumstances under which Afrikaans separated from Dutch are pretty different from the ones in which Scots separated from English; like, there isn't exactly a dialect continuum between the two, obviously.
@Felthry I'd have to look at some sometime.
@Felthry Fairly intelligible, though actually trying to speak it usually doesn't end well. That said, there are a bunch of false friends between the two, and knowing English on the side helps a ton due to influence from that.