Comment on Plant Slurs

• syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • WhiteHotaru@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • WhiteHotaru@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Happy to help!

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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