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[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago

Unkraut in German. Doesn't deserve to be called a Kraut.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day 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. )

https://ugress.bandcamp.com/

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day 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: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/6SLYFZ3ZSAWYUJX26V4EXWYGFZBI7ZFH

„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 https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum So you might want to skip this.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Happy to help!

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