Catradora-Stalinism☭ to Comradeship // Freechat • 2 years agoIf you could rename anything, what would it be? and what would it be to?message-square64arrow-up129arrow-down11file-text
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minus-square☭CommieWolf☆link9•2 years agoIts a loanword from old Sanskrit. I think its fair to call it shampoo, the Indians did invent it after all.
minus-squareButtigiegMineralMaplink6•2 years agoI don’t wanna put any -poo on my head, I may even start referring to the word in a foreign language tbh it shouldn’t bother me this much but I hate that word
minus-square☭CommieWolf☆link9•2 years agoTechnically, you are already referring to it in a foreign language, its a word that the British stole after all.
minus-squareDankZedong Alink9•edit-22 years agoI just know you guys pronounce it with the -ee of Jeep, so the thought of some people saying they wash their heads with zeep is funny to me.
minus-squareButtigiegMineralMaplink5•2 years agoZeep it is. We have a winner. (Is it pronounced Zey-ep?)
minus-square@redtealink5•2 years agoSomehow zeep (pronounced zayp) is even better than zeep (pronounced zeep – you were right, my mind went straight to jeep with a z).
Its a loanword from old Sanskrit. I think its fair to call it shampoo, the Indians did invent it after all.
I don’t wanna put any -poo on my head, I may even start referring to the word in a foreign language tbh it shouldn’t bother me this much but I hate that word
Technically, you are already referring to it in a foreign language, its a word that the British stole after all.
Call it haarwasmiddel or zeep
Zeep
Zeep is good
I just know you guys pronounce it with the -ee of Jeep, so the thought of some people saying they wash their heads with zeep is funny to me.
Zeep it is. We have a winner. (Is it pronounced Zey-ep?)
With the -ay as in say. So zayp
Somehow zeep (pronounced zayp) is even better than zeep (pronounced zeep – you were right, my mind went straight to jeep with a z).
Its Dutch for Soap, pronounced like “Ape”
Hey, we can’t all speak fluent swamp.
Je m’appelle frikandel