Comment on Plant Slurs

TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• stray@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Swedish the prefix for bad stuff is the same as the prefix for not or un-. So a monster is a not-animal and a weed is ungrass. Which is especially interesting to me because that same prefix (o) is for better versions of things in Japanese.

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• fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mine translates to “bad grass” in both my mother languages.

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  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems to be a pattern :3

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    • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah, that both have a lot of words translated from each other xD

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• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The French name for weed could be translated to “bad/wrong grass”

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  • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this is something I might be too French-Canadian to understand, here we’d call it “pot” or perhaps “herbe”, both of which don’t translate to “bad grass”.

    Unless overseas “herbe” translates to weed. We use it pretty interchangeably with “gazon” (which just means grass)

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    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Mauvaises herbes” this is the word I was thinking about.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Erbaccia in Italian, bad/ugly grass

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love it, what language is that?

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  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lithuanian :3

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    • Remavas@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My guess was correct, based only on the translation of piktžolė lol.

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    • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Very :3pilled

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      • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        :3 and UwU are my personality at this point x3

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• MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unkraut in German. Doesn’t deserve to be called a Kraut.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ogräs in swedish, gräs is herb and the O is like making it not-grass.

    Röka gräs is smoking weed though so suddenly it’s getting the good treatment.

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    • TaTTe@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Herb is ört in Swedish. Gräs is better translated as grass, so ogräs is non-grass. This also enables a funny way to insult someone’s lawn – since lawn is gräsmatta (grass carpet) – by calling it an ogräsmatta.

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  • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Similar in Norwegian: Ugress. Un-grass.

    I’ve heard one definition of it that I like: The grass that your (grazing) animals won’t eat.

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    • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh man. I have known this word as the name of an electronica music project for many years. Now I know what it means (never bothered to look it up. )

      ugress.bandcamp.com

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  • HyonoKo@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So technically all non-Germans are Unkrauts! I‘m incorporating this word.

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    • WhiteHotaru@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know where you are coming from, but as a German calling someone „Unkraut“ has a very dehumanizing sound and was used by nazis to classify people they wanted to murder. Example: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/…/6SLYFZ3ZSAWYUJX…

      „However, it would have to become the task of the Inner Mission… to clear God’s field of this Unkraut“: women as victims of forced serialisation and “euthanasia” under National Socialism

      What happend next is posted daily by mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum So you might want to skip this.

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      • HyonoKo@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Um… Ok you might have saved me from a few faux passes.

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