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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•3 months agoAlso Swedish: semester means ‘a vacation’ and gift means ‘poison’
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•3 months 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