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[-] MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 year ago

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

[-] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 year 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.

[-] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 6 points 1 year 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/

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year 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.

[-] TaTTe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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.

[-] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] WhiteHotaru@feddit.org 23 points 1 year 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.

[-] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] WhiteHotaru@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago

Happy to help!

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