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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You can borrow from someone else. When someone else borrows from you, you lend it. Or lent as the past tense

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, updated. I think my mistake stems from Swedish only having one word for the concept, regardless of the direction of the transaction.

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

I’ve noticed a lot of my european friends doing the same

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think the only english-speaking people in North America who know this read Hamlet in high school.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are people not reading Hamlet in high school now? What was the cutoff for 16th century literature, 2021?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Like PE, it's all optional now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ish...

They could have said "you have let the government borrow from you tax free."

But yeah, the general idea holds.