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A language like a set of building blocks. (feddit.org)
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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

救護車

救 --> save/rescue
護 --> protect
車 --> car/vehicle

aka: Ambulance

An ambulance is a life saving car protecting you, or to abbreviate it, an SCP.

An ambulance is an SCP confirmed.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Interesting what languages go with, as Japanese keeps the save part but drops the protect in favor of hurry/emergency, so it's the "hurry up and save you car" 救急車

    Even ambulance itself comes from the French phrase walking hospital, and then the hospital part got dropped. We still retain the word ambulant to mean moving in English

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