The Picard Maneuver to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works • 22 days agoSweden can't be real.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1486arrow-down14
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minus-square@patchworkneuron@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish15•21 days agoAlso Swedish: semester means ‘a vacation’ and gift means ‘poison’
minus-square@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink6•21 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