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  • Not even for a very long time. It simply won’t happen, ever. Unless we miraculously discover ways to travel at the speed of light or hibernate for a few centuries. Even then, we’d only be reaching the nearest solar system, which probably isn’t very interesting anyway.

    Edit: heck, even at the speed of light this stuff is very unpractical. Sure, Proxima is doable, but finding something worth finding is a whole different story. Big chance we’d still have to travel hundreds, or thousands, if not millions of years at the speed of light to find something to live on, for example.






  • karbonkel@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlCursing
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    1 year ago

    In Dutch we curse and insult with diseases. For example “kankerzooi” = “cancerous mess” and “tyfuslijer” = “typhoid sufferer”. That first one is a bit frowned upon, but using “kanker” is becoming more common. There’s an established word “kankeren” which means “to grumble”, though.

    Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that this meme works very well for Dutch

    Some more examples:

    • Teringlijer = tuberculosis sufferer
    • Pestpokken = something with the plague and pox
    • Krijg de kolere = get cholera
    • Zich de tyfus werken = literally “to work so hard you get typhoid” (wtf), but really just “to work very hard”

    Funny one also is “kut” which means “vagina” and is used in the same way as cursing with “shit”. Also, something like “kanker” (cancer) can be used in a positive way to emphasize something, like “kankerlekker” meaning “extremely good tasting” (although still frowned upon by most people)

    Actually, just read the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_profanity