I love the idea that languages have a certain phonetic sound even if you can't understand them.
To me the original article read like someone speaking English with a heavy Dutch accent. Sometimes when I watch foreign, to me, Dutch language TV if I sort of "squint" I think I can understand it.
That might just be though that Dutch is close to English and that I watch a lot of Belgian cycling events so know the subject a bit.
Menco Pranda!