[yurishimo]

This is likely an effect of translation more than anything. While the Dutch are generally very competent English speakers and writers, their expertise tends to end the conversational level. Anything technical in its conception takes decades of intense every day use to intuit.

Source: native English speaker working in the Netherlands with a team of Dutch people. They are all really smart people, but they tend to err on the side of simple vocabulary when forced to think in English.

[Doxin]

I think another cause is that english tends to have simpler sentence structures when compared to dutch in the first place, and dutch folks tend to over-correct towards simplicity when speaking/writing/thinking english.

E.g. this is a perfectly cromulent dutch sentence:

"Vorig jaar zijn we gestart met scholing rondom systeemdenken met als doel de lessen rond begrijpend lezen naar een hoger niveau te tillen en de leesresultaten van de kinderen te verbeteren."

Which when fairly directly translated to english ends up something like:

"Last year we have started with schooling around system thinking with as goal lifting the classes on reading comprehension to a new level and improving the reading results for the children."

which while valid english, isn't very idiomatic -- never mind hard to parse. A native would most likely split this into three or four sentences. E.g.:

"Last year we started with schooling around system thinking. The goal of his is to lift the classes on reading comprehension to a new level. Simultaneously this will improve the childrens' learning results."

[rsynnott]

Nah, I was half-joking. This one is a really common bit of confusing naming in English, as well.