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My brain isn’t melted. This could just be some obscure Dutch dialect for all I know.
I'm sure some people don't hear it, like "the dress", but for some of us it sounds like an Uncanny Valley of English: close but not quite, just enough for our brains to trip over / struggle to comprehend b/c it is so close.
I wonder how much those exposure those creeped-out people have had to other Germanic languages.