Popular Post theboyangel Posted April 17, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, leemond2008 said: Get my wife’s head out of your f*#%Ing mouth??? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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El Zen Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 5 hours ago, sne said: Swedish too Norwegian too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mjmooney Posted April 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17, 2022 3 hours ago, El Zen said: Norwegian too. So, 'gift' means 'poison' in every north European language - except English, where it means 'a nice present'. How the hell did that come about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17, 2022 4 minutes ago, mjmooney said: So, 'gift' means 'poison' in every north European language - except English, where it means 'a nice present'. How the hell did that come about? This seems to be fairly good reasoning - Quote Instead of a gift, you give Germans a Geschenk. The verb for that is schenken. That’s nice! But how come there are such differences? Actually, Gift had the same meaning in German too, as late as the 18th century in fact. What happened? Throughout the ages, the word Gift was influenced by the Greek-Late Latin word dosis, which meant both gift and a certain amount of medicine. The English word “dose” comes from that too (which is a confusing word as well!). Dosis was related to the idea of die dosis macht das Gift (the dose makes the poison). And so Gift, which also meant Geschenk at the time, was increasingly related to a “deadly dose” colloquially, and that’s how the meaning creeped in that we have today! Interestingly, the old meaning of Gift as a Geschenk still lives in the word Mitgift (dowry). German language blog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted April 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17, 2022 4 minutes ago, mjmooney said: So, 'gift' means 'poison' in every north European language - except English, where it means 'a nice present'. How the hell did that come about? At a guess it's because the English are devious sods and not to be trusted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, mjmooney said: So, 'gift' means 'poison' in every north European language - except English, where it means 'a nice present'. How the hell did that come about? I’d assume ‘poison’ is French, so that probably explains that (given the absolute toxicity of Royal courts!) I’d also assume the English word ‘gift’ is closely related to the Norwegian word ‘gave’ (as in present) and the English ‘to give’ is almost certainly cognate to the Norwegian equivalent ‘gi’. Give-gave-given isn’t too far from gi-ga-gitt (and if you look at older Norwegian grammar, the similarity is even closer.) As previously mentioned, ‘gift’ also means ‘married’ in all Scandinavian languages, which I’d assume comes from the practice of ‘giving’ the bride away. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 16 minutes ago, Rds1983 said: At a guess it's because the English are devious sods and not to be trusted. Nah. We're the only country in Europe that drives on the correct side of the road. We're right, everyone else is wrong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Xela said: Nah. We're the only country in Europe that drives on the correct side of the road. We're right, everyone else is wrong Cyprus also drive on the left side Edited April 17, 2022 by theboyangel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Genie Posted April 17, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) If anyone could confirm what plethora translates to in Swedish or Norwegian it would mean a lot. Edited April 17, 2022 by Genie 5 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 18 minutes ago, theboyangel said: Cyprus also drive on the left side Yes! Malta as well from memory 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 …and Ireland …and I’m giving a shout to Australia too as they are in the Eurovision Song Contest 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheAuthority Posted April 19, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, Xela said: 80's calculator boys club FTW! Edited April 19, 2022 by TheAuthority 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 10 hours ago, TheAuthority said: 80's calculator boys club FTW! Hi millennial here. 8008 was also hilarious in the 90s. It is timeless. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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