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hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It works at least in German: Stuhl is both the furniture and the term doctors use to describe poop.

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In American English, a stool can also mean furniture and poop. (I am guessing this comes directly from German.)

    The comment, you replied to, makes sense because in American English a stool and a chair are different types of sitting furniture. The difference being a stool has no or limited back support and can be counter height.

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    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Great to see a fellow frog in the wild!

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      I am guessing this comes directly from German

      The German and English wikipedia have interesting information about the etymology of the English chair and the German Stuhl:

      Chair:

      Chair comes from the early 13th-century English word chaere, from Old French chaiere (“chair, seat, throne”), from Latin cathedra (“seat”).

      Stuhl:

      […] althochdeutsch stuol ‚Sitz, Thron‘ […]

      (Old high German stuol meaning ‘seat’ or ‘throne’

      Das Wort Stuhl […] ist mit l-Suffix zur indoeuropäischen Wurzel *stā-, *stǝ- ‚stehen, stellen‘ gebildet.

      (The word Stuhl is built from the proto-indo-european language by adding the suffix ‘l’ to the root ‘*stā’ or ‘*stǝ’ which means ‘to stand’)

      So both means seat/seating or throne but chair is more a throne-like furniture (by having arm rests and/or back rest) whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use “Schemel” or “Hocker” to describe such a stool. “Schemel” seems to come from “scamilla”, Latin for small bench.

      I have no idea how all this information helps us, but it’s interesting :D

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      • frog@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes always good to see a fellow frog!

        So this meme would only make sense in Old High German.

        That is interesting.

        Thanks for the info.

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      • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use “Schemel” or “Hocker” to describe such a stool.

        So what you’re saying is that the meme doesn’t work in German either, because the furniture in the meme would be referred to as a “Schemel” rather than a “Stuhl”

        This meme is an abortion of human language smh

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe he’s Dutch. In Dutch “chair” is “stoel”, you pronounce it as “stool”

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On the bristol stool chart that’s what we call a 2. It’s like a perfect stool in the sense that you could sit on ut, (but it’s not really a stool.)[lemmy.world/comment/16762400]

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