Dort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.net to Main, home of the dope ass bear.@hexbear.netEnglish · 20 days agoWe're going to have to figure out wtf is up with the UKhexbear.netimagemessage-square47linkfedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareSaeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·20 days agoWelsh and the irresistible temptation to call everything a kind of pig
minus-squareMaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-219 days agoLivestock really A ladybird is a buwch-goch-gota, which literally translates to “little red cow”.
minus-squareSaeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·20 days agoThey’re all great, a badger is a mochyn daer or earth-pig
minus-squareMaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 days agoWhereas in Afrikaans an ‘earth pig’ is an Aardvark And then look at what we call a Guinea Pig - which the germans also call meerschweinchen - a little sea pig - but ‘sea’ meaning ‘from overseas’.
Welsh and the irresistible temptation to call everything a kind of pig
Livestock really
A ladybird is a buwch-goch-gota, which literally translates to “little red cow”.
They’re all great, a badger is a mochyn daer or earth-pig
Whereas in Afrikaans an ‘earth pig’ is an Aardvark
And then look at what we call a Guinea Pig - which the germans also call meerschweinchen - a little sea pig - but ‘sea’ meaning ‘from overseas’.