this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
852 points (98.2% liked)

Facepalm

3137 readers
20 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

TranscriptA tweet by Ivanka Trump @ivankatrump saying "I cannot believe that Theodore is eight months old today! Happy birthday little teddy bear!" with an admittedly cute picture of a child smiling. It has a reply from @blacknmild saying "this isn't how birthdays work"

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

In Dutch, birthday translates to "verjaardag" where "jaar" means "year" and "dag" means day, so the literal meaning of "verjaardag" comes down to "the day you grow one year older". By that logic, the day a baby grows one month older could be named "vermaanddag", where "maand" means month. It's not a real word but it's a good pun and it would get the idea across. Unfortunately it doesn't work in English.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Anniversary comes from annum, which means year, so you could have a monthversary maybe

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

month in latin is mensis (I'm told) so mensiversary

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How can you be so sexist that you exclude women by celebrating men only?! /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I think they get a mensesversary instead, though I don't think many of them celebrate that one (unless there's a pregnancy scare)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

dag

y'like dags?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To be slightly absurd: Every day is a day you are one year older than the same day the previous year

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

We have "årsdag" in Swedish too, but it's a general term used for stuff other than birthdays ("födelsedag")