The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 6 days agoSweden can't be real.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up1601arrow-down16
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minus-squarepatchworkneuron@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·6 days agoAlso Swedish: semester means ‘a vacation’ and gift means ‘poison’
minus-squareitslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 days agogift means poison in a lot of northern European languages, actually. Fun fact: that’s because ‘gift’ (in the sense of ‘present’) was used as a euphemism for poison so much, the original meaning faded eventually
Also Swedish: semester means ‘a vacation’ and gift means ‘poison’
Being married is gift as well.
gift means poison in a lot of northern European languages, actually. Fun fact: that’s because ‘gift’ (in the sense of ‘present’) was used as a euphemism for poison so much, the original meaning faded eventually