Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!

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Those Amiga500 floppy drives are crap, Two of my three Amiga500's has a dead floppy drive and I am very careful with my last working one

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Cyberus wrote:
@speelgoedmannetje

err, thanks...I suppose...

speelgoed is 'toy' in English, I know
but what does mannet mean?

mannetje means man (but belittled)

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EpyxWork wrote:
It translates to "little man" or "little boy" either works.

The root word means man or male. The je at the end of a dutch word implies it is tiny or small.

So translated literally it would loosely mean "ToyBoy". So I think the author is having a bit of fun  with the word "BoyToy"

I am referring to a song of my favorite dutch standup comedian who does not take himself all too serious.

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Cyberus wrote:
@ Odin

So the difference between man and mannet is...nothing?
I have been teaching myself some Dutch, and I would like to know! Thanks

"mannet" means doesn't mean anything in Dutch
it is making the word to be able to be belittled.