Comment on Plant Slurs

quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In German it’s “Unkraut” which could either be interpreted as “not herb”, “abnormal herb” or “evil herb”. Is the range similar in Spanish?

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  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Other than the “not” part, yeah. “Mala” is bad, wrong, evil, wicked, ill, naughty, etc.

    (Checked this to confirm before I posted, since it’s been several years since I’ve known Spanish well enough to speak it.)

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Estonian is umbrohi which is kind of like “not grass” so pretty similar to Deutsch here

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• Binette@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In french, it’s skmilar: “mauvaises herbes”

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  • ShutUpDonnie@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And I think that’s beautiful.

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• LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Isn’t hierba buena mint? Everything else must be hierba neutra then

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I learnt from Animal Crossing that it was “Malezas”

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  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maleza is more like a thicket or lots of malas hierbas.

    dle.rae.es/maleza?m=form

    But now I see that in some countries is synonymous with mala hierba, I didn’t know that.

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  • swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some countries in Latin America call it maleza and others do not

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