[greenyoda]

> I can't read dutch, but...

It's not Dutch, it's German, so trying to translate it as if it were Dutch would give strange results (although Google Translate tried to do it anyway, and came fairly close, due to the languages being somewhat related).

The original sentence: "Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen."

Translating from German, Google Translate gave me:

"This example, which seems like a Hollywood scenario, actually happened."

Translating, as if it were Dutch, Google Translate gave me:

"The play, the one who comes to a Hollywood theater, is such a work in itself."

[tauchunfall]

>It's not Dutch, it's German, so trying to translate it as if it were Dutch would give strange results

Anecdote: One of my coworkers once thought that Dutch means German. I guess it was because the words "dutch" and "deutsch" look so similar.

[dredmorbius]

It's possible that terms such as "Pennsylvania Dutch", which refers to the German-Paletine originating Amish and other groups within the US state of Pennsylvania, might account for some of this confusion. The "Dutch" in that case are actually "Deutsch", that is, of German origin.

That said, the Dutch language is among the Germanic languages, and is closely-related to German itself (similarly, the Dutch-derived Afrikaans, with which Dutch is largely mutually intelligible). To someone reasonably fluent in German, Dutch looks like a somewhat garbled variant. Similarly Danish, though the spoken form varies considerably from the orthography, and Norwegian, also closely related. Contemporary German shares many words and a fair bit of grammar with English as well, making blingualism in both relatively easy, compared with, say, more distant languages such as English-Arabic or English-Mandarin.

[croon]

You're right, and I should've realized that, but I just used the browser translation and must've misread deutsch for dutch.

Regardless, the translation is close enough to yours (albeit grammatically awkward).