Yes, this was a real educational technicality fuckup, it seemed sus but everyone was like “don’t you know it’s a weed”? - “No, no I do not. And you don’t even have a field to worry abut crop yields, it’s just a lawn & now there is a flower in it, wtf.”
Plant Slurs
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Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 58 minutes ago
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 hours ago
Fun fact: the name for a weed in my native language is literally “angry grass” :3
MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Unkraut in German. Doesn’t deserve to be called a Kraut.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 minutes ago
Kraut is any green plant stuff, like the plant part of potatoes.
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour 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.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
So technically all non-Germans are Unkrauts! I‘m incorporating this word.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I love it, what language is that?
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 1 hour ago
Lithuanian :3
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
My definition: aggressive spread and resilience to removal.
Weeds that are pretty might get more of a pass than ones which are ugly, poisonous or thorny, but ultimately, even the most beautiful flower becomes a weed when it’s suddenly everywhere and you are fighting constantly to get rid of it.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 51 minutes ago
Humans are a weed.
Madrigal@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 40 minutes ago
weeds are plants with the capacity for spite
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
Well, “weed” can be a legal definition. A lot of governments have a noxious weed list that either provides for consequences if you suffer that plant on your property, or just an excuse for the government to come on to your property to kill the weeds for you. For instance, Russian Olive is legally a “kill on sight” invasive plant in my area.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
noxious and invasive weeds.
archonet@lemy.lol 2 hours ago
[with visibly bloodshot eyes] “Nah, man, I disagree with your definition there.”
Carl@hexbear.net 2 hours ago
A guest on Space Ghost Coast to Coast put it best. “A plant out of place” is a weed, like an insect out of place is a pest. It’s a definition that centers ecology and targets invasive species.
SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org 37 minutes ago
Just wait until he finds out about “tree”
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 minutes ago
Any kind of twig that’s not a shrub?