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pipe01@programming.dev 2 months agoApparently it means making them water and dust resistant or something like that
Interesting. I wonder what the etomological origin of that word is. Cuz whenever my husband gets me pregnant, I do not feel impervious to water or dust.
And in Spanish it just means “question.”
But if spanish-speaking person A hears person B say they’re “embarrassed,” A might think B is pregnant.
impregnar ≠ preguntar
≠ prego spaghetti sauce
“imprégner” in french, close enough
How you do that by getting them pregnant?
Wouldn’t that be “impermeated”
unimpermeable
gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It derives from “to soak” or “to saturate” because they saturate the fabric with some resin (i think) to fill the voids between the strings, so it becomes (mostly) impermeable to water.
NightFantom@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Yeah, if you think of “filling up” as the definition it’s pretty easy
appearexpressspot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Ha, soaking