• @hagelslager@feddit.nl
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    105 days ago

    Yup, in this case: Yacht comes from the Dutch word “jacht” (hunt). Named after fast sailing vessels to hunt down pirates and enemies.

    • @breecher@sh.itjust.works
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      34 days ago

      And “yacht” or variations of it are used in the exact same way in a lot of other languages. It is really an exceptionally unfortunate example the monolinguistic OOP chose to be their point.